A leading researcher of the Shroud of Turin, a burial cloth believed to bear the image of Jesus Christ, Father Francis L. Filas SJ., was born in Cicero, Illinois, on June 4, 1915, to Thomas M. Filas, a pioneer Cicero architect, and his wife Emily Francis Seery.
Entering the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio, on August 12, 1932, he was ordained to the priesthood in June 1945. Associated with the Loyola University of Chicago for more than 35 years, serving as a longtime Professor of Theology, for several years Filas led studies about the Shroud of Turin, traditionally venerated as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, in 1981, he was criticized when he said an impression on the shroud matched a rare Roman coin numismatists say was produced in Palestine between A.D. 29 and A.D. 32, in the reign of Pontius Pilate, Governor of Palestine. He said the match proved that the shroud was used to bury a crucified Jew in Palestine around that time, making it a mathematical probability that it was used by Jesus. Filas also was an expert on the Theology of St. Joseph, the father of Jesus, and wrote seven of his 10 books on the subject.
Father Filas died of a heart attack during the night of Friday, February 16, 1985, at Edgewater Hospital, Chicago, aged 69. A memorial Mass was said Monday night at St. Ignatius Church. According to his wishes, his body was donated to science.
Entering the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio, on August 12, 1932, he was ordained to the priesthood in June 1945. Associated with the Loyola University of Chicago for more than 35 years, serving as a longtime Professor of Theology, for several years Filas led studies about the Shroud of Turin, traditionally venerated as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, in 1981, he was criticized when he said an impression on the shroud matched a rare Roman coin numismatists say was produced in Palestine between A.D. 29 and A.D. 32, in the reign of Pontius Pilate, Governor of Palestine. He said the match proved that the shroud was used to bury a crucified Jew in Palestine around that time, making it a mathematical probability that it was used by Jesus. Filas also was an expert on the Theology of St. Joseph, the father of Jesus, and wrote seven of his 10 books on the subject.
Father Filas died of a heart attack during the night of Friday, February 16, 1985, at Edgewater Hospital, Chicago, aged 69. A memorial Mass was said Monday night at St. Ignatius Church. According to his wishes, his body was donated to science.
A leading researcher of the Shroud of Turin, a burial cloth believed to bear the image of Jesus Christ, Father Francis L. Filas SJ., was born in Cicero, Illinois, on June 4, 1915, to Thomas M. Filas, a pioneer Cicero architect, and his wife Emily Francis Seery.
Entering the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio, on August 12, 1932, he was ordained to the priesthood in June 1945. Associated with the Loyola University of Chicago for more than 35 years, serving as a longtime Professor of Theology, for several years Filas led studies about the Shroud of Turin, traditionally venerated as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, in 1981, he was criticized when he said an impression on the shroud matched a rare Roman coin numismatists say was produced in Palestine between A.D. 29 and A.D. 32, in the reign of Pontius Pilate, Governor of Palestine. He said the match proved that the shroud was used to bury a crucified Jew in Palestine around that time, making it a mathematical probability that it was used by Jesus. Filas also was an expert on the Theology of St. Joseph, the father of Jesus, and wrote seven of his 10 books on the subject.
Father Filas died of a heart attack during the night of Friday, February 16, 1985, at Edgewater Hospital, Chicago, aged 69. A memorial Mass was said Monday night at St. Ignatius Church. According to his wishes, his body was donated to science.
Entering the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio, on August 12, 1932, he was ordained to the priesthood in June 1945. Associated with the Loyola University of Chicago for more than 35 years, serving as a longtime Professor of Theology, for several years Filas led studies about the Shroud of Turin, traditionally venerated as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, in 1981, he was criticized when he said an impression on the shroud matched a rare Roman coin numismatists say was produced in Palestine between A.D. 29 and A.D. 32, in the reign of Pontius Pilate, Governor of Palestine. He said the match proved that the shroud was used to bury a crucified Jew in Palestine around that time, making it a mathematical probability that it was used by Jesus. Filas also was an expert on the Theology of St. Joseph, the father of Jesus, and wrote seven of his 10 books on the subject.
Father Filas died of a heart attack during the night of Friday, February 16, 1985, at Edgewater Hospital, Chicago, aged 69. A memorial Mass was said Monday night at St. Ignatius Church. According to his wishes, his body was donated to science.
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