sin´do|nol´o|gist

sin|do|nol|o|gy «_SIHN duh NOL uh jee», noun.

the scientific study of the shroud of Turin, a cloth bearing the image of a life-size figure of a man thought to be Jesus Christ, kept in a chapel in Turin, Italy, since the 1500's: »

Sindonology is the study of the shroud—a lifelong romance with the paradox—and in particular two questions: what is the image composed of, and by what mysterious if not miraculous process was it formed? Sindonology is the physics of miracles (Rolling Stone).

╂[< (archaic or obsolete) sindon a shroud < Latin, < Greek sindón + -logy]

–sin´do|nol´o|gist, noun.