sindonologyn.

1964 J. Walsh Shroud xii. 117 By the start of the Second World War the Shroud had been studied more closely than in all its previous history... The investigation..assumed the stature of a separate discipline and was given a name, sindonology.

1979 Radio Times 7 Apr. 86/2 Don Pietro Borga is the general secretary of the International Centre for Sindonology (study of the shroud).

1950 Catholic Digest May 77/1 Dr Wuenschel..will give an address on ‘The Shroud of Turin and the Burial of Christ’ this May in Rome at the International Syndonological convention.

1953 E. Wuenschel Holy Shroud of Turin (rev. ed.) 4 In 1950, he was invited to read a paper at the First Sindonological Congress at Rome—a meeting of internationally recognized authorities on the Holy Shroud of Turin.

1978 Church Times 6 Oct. 6/4 This book..alarms by an account of a visit to a Sindonological Library in New York.

1953 E. Wuenschel Holy Shroud of Turin (rev. ed.) 4 He collaborated with Dr. Paul Vignon, the greatest of all sindonologists.

1980 Observer 28 Dec. 3/1 It has been a disappointment to sindonologists (the name for shroud students) that the Roman Catholic authorities have refused to allow this [sc. carbon dating].