CURRICULUM VITAE Deacon Pete SCHUMACHER
Pete Schumacher with VP-8 |
Image Christ in VP-8 |
In 1972, Peter Schumacher became Product Engineer for the VP-8 Image Analyzer manufactured by Interpretation Systems, Inc. of Lawrence, Kansas. He designed circuit boards, and performed field service, system installation, and operator training worldwide. (the VP-8 Image Analyzer has played a major role in the three-dimensional scientific research and discoveries concerning the Shroud of Turin. The Shroud is the probable burial cloth of Jesus, bearing an image having many unique characteristics).
In 1976, Mr. Schumacher installed a VP-8 at the home of Captain Eric Jumper, in Colorado Springs. This was his first introduction to the Shroud. Realizing the unique properties of the Shroud image, as shown to him by Jumper and Jackson, he has studied the Shroud ever since. He assisted in the use of the VP-8 for research resulting in papers written by Jackson, Jumper, Mottern, Stevenson, German and others as published in the “Proceedings of the 1977 United States Conference of Research on the Shroud of Turin”, March 23-24, 1977, in Albuquerque, NM.
VP-8 Image Analyzer |
Face Christ in VP-8 |
From 1978-1987 Schumacher pioneered in the development of digital-analog hybrid image analysis systems. He was awarded three U.S. patents in the art. He is cited in technical papers published by the “Journal of Nuclear Medicine”, “Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers”, the “Society of Exploration Geophysicists”, the “American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing”, and the “American Society of Cartography and Mapping”.
In 1986 he presented “Electronic On Site Data Capture For Image Processing of the Turin Shroud” at a meeting of the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), and co-hosted a Shroud Conference in Charlotte, NC. In 1999 he presented “Photogrammetric Response From the Shroud of Turin”, a technical paper at the conference on the Shroud in Richmond, VA.
In 2008 he presented “VP-8 Shroud Image Analysis, Impact and History” at the International Conference on the Shroud held at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
After six years of formation, education, and training, a portion of which was completed in the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, Schumacher was ordained a Permanent Deacon in The Catholic Church, Diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico, June 6, 2009. He presently serves at Immaculate Conception Church in Alamogordo.
On February 25, 2009, Deacon Pete and Susan Wagner (a Secular Franciscan and his wife of 22 years) opened “Shroud Exhibit and Museum (SEAM), Incorporated”, a non-profit founded to make the Shroud an available experience for everyone. It is an “occasion of grace in a secular place”, located in the old center of Alamogordo, New Mexico, listed in the Official Catholic Directory (OCD).
In 2014 he presented in the Conference of the Shroud in St. LOUIS the results of the research with the VP-8 Image Analyzer that he had done together with Dr. Petrus Soons, about the presence of a HALO around the Head of the Image on the Shroud, a discovery done by Dr. Soons, and connecting this HALO to the Mandylion of Edessa, proving that the Shroud and the Mandylion were most probably one and the same. This would date the Shroud back to at least the year 525 A.D.
Since the year 2008, when they met during the Shroud Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Petrus Soons and Pete Schumacher met every two years in Alamogordo and have done quite some research with the VP-8 Image Analyzer that resulted in the proof of the existence of a solid object under the beard (with three letters in relief on the surface), research about the nail wounds, presence of phylacteries on the left arm and leptons on top of the eye lids.
Dr. Peter Soons and Pete Schumacher in Columbus Ohio