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More and more you practice the hypothesis that originally the Sacred Mandylion of Edessa (now Urfa, Turkey) was a bundle that includes a shroud and a shroud. These sheets, found in the tomb of Jesus after his resurrection, the apostles were collected and smuggled to Edessa from one of them, named Thaddeus (Mt 10.3, Mk. 3.18, Acts of Thaddeus) which was precisely the task of evangelizing the Eastern Turkey.

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Father Heinrich Pfeiffer is Professor of the History of Christian at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In addition to being one of the most authoritative experts of Christian art in the world, always studying the iconographic canons in which artists, in the East and West, have inspired over the centuries, for the representation of the face of Jesus wrote the image of Christ in art ( New Town, Rome 1986), Das ist Echte Christusbild (Knecht, Frankfurt 1992) and The Holy Face (Harsha, Pescara 2000).

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The various stages of the Holy Face before his arrival in Rome

P. Heinrich Pfeiffer

Building on the face of the Shroud of perfectly superimposed with the face of Manoppello , one is led to admit that the image on the veil on the Shroud were formed At the same time ....

The thin shroud with the fine image, preserved today at the Shrine of Manoppello, found the tomb empty on Easter morning now, we can do two cases. The first supposed to have had the Mother Mary, to whom it was almost right; her, so we think, took it with him. Since she would have passed to John, then the first at Ephesus and then in some other places in Asia Minor. Or second option was to remain united to the Holy Shroud, which is separated from it in a time much later as I opined in my book "Das echte Christusbild, 1991. If you follow the latter, then, as George Cedrenus writes, icon 574 in "acheiropoietos" carried by Camulia in Cappadocia to Constantinople. It is an object so similar that it is in all probability the same Veil is preserved today in the sanctuary of Abruzzi. He remained in Constantinople until 705, when the image of Camulia disappeared from the capital of the Empire. The image of Camulia is the first object that is called "acheiropoietos," that is not made by human hands. In a poem of praise of the poet Theophylact Simocatta written Byzantine troops to victory in the battle near the river Arzamon (586), obtained for the presence of the image, described it as "not painted, not woven, but made with divine art." George Pisidia calls him a "prototype written by God." Even after the disappearance of the image, Theophanes (758-818) states that no hand could have drawn this, but "the creative Word and forming all things produced the shape" of this divine-human figure. All these descriptions of Byzantine historians and poets can be justified only by the presence of a single object: the Holy Face. Also, as a first impression, seems to be a painting, but when you look better, you immediately discard this hypothesis. Then it could have been produced with the technique of weaving, but that argument does not hold. So we understand the description "not painted, not woven" Byzantine poets. For an image like that of Manoppello, which is totally transparent and almost completely disappears when placed against the sky, it must exclude any technique known to produce a work of art. The image of Camulia, the first "acheiropoietos" not only disappeared from Constantinople, but he would set out, by sea towards the ancient capital of the Empire, Rome. In Constantinople they would have said that patriarch Germanus given the image of Christ to the early waves of iconoclasm and it would arrive in Rome in the time of Pope Gregory II. In Rome, speaks of a "acheropsita" that Pope Stephen II was carried in procession when the Lombard king Aistulfo besieged the city in 753. This "acheropsita" is the Chapel of the Holy Face of the Sancta Sanctorum Lateran Palace of the Popes. It is an icon whose face was glued to a canvas painted with the face of Christ. The most reliable hypothesis is that the first film was just pasted the Holy Face. You could not devise a better hiding place for an image on a film that can superimpose an icon. So the emperor Byzantine could never discover the theft of his "acheiropoietos" and it could be venerated in the papal liturgy. When the Byzantine emperors gradually lost their power and their influence on Italy, the Veil could be separated from the icon, to be replaced by a painted veil, and carried into the chapel in St. Peter's, Pope John VII had built shortly after the image of Camulia disappeared from Constantinople. The first Pope no longer had to fear the power of the Byzantine emperor was Innocent III. He promoted for the first time the cult and veneration of the veil with the image of Christ, and this time the veil was called "Veronica" the true icon of Christ. The title "Holy Face" was the Lateran Icon. This is the story most likely the Holy Face according to our knowledge of the documents and images acheropite. remains an open question: how and when the funeral cloths, the Shroud and the veil of Manoppello, were divided. How Mandilion of Edessa, the Shroud had its own path with the transport to Constantinople in 944, his temporary loss since the Latin cross in 1204, and its re-emergence from the darkness of the times in Lirey in the mid-fourteenth century.

The Holy Face made his trip that we tried to reconstruct from Jerusalem to Ephesus and from Ephesus to Camulia in Cappadocia, from Camulia to Constantinople, from Constantinople to the Chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum Lateran Palace, from here to the Chapel of Veronica in St. Peter, then to the Shrine of Manoppello. During these trips on the same subject, according to our hypothesis, has changed names several times: from image "acheiropoietos" of Camulia, "prototypos", "acheropsita" and "Holy Face" Chapel of the Holy of Holies, to "Veronica" and finally back to the "Holy Face" in Manoppello. This path is a well-founded hypothesis, the identity of the Holy Face with Roman Veronica, however, is uncertain.

And the Word became flesh

and dwelt among us;

and we beheld his glory,

glory as of the only begotten Son

that comes from the Father,

full of grace and truth .... (John 1.14)

From his fullness

we all received:

grace upon grace (John 1:16)

grace in the face disfigured and transfigured in the glory of the risen Christ (Is.52, 14-15, Col. 1, 15). Photos and processing accessible to the computer by Antonio Theseus.

First Image left: superposition of the Shroud face to that of Manoppello obtained with contrast enhanced (elaboration you can see the blood that has disfigured the face of Jesus Christ ), second image: the Holy Face; third image: processing obtained by the procedure "equalization" of the middle photo (filtering reveals that the bright eyes of Christ are facing the light of the Father).

Vision of wrinkled linen of the shroud with the image of the Holy Face indefinite projected and impressed with the blood of the Passion on the Shroud of Turin, by the divine light of the risen Christ (John 1:9).