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    tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus Christ had...
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    Edessa (/əˈdɛsə/; Ancient Greek: Ἔδεσσα, romanized: Édessa) was an ancient city (polis) in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey...
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    divine approval of icons.[citation needed] The acheiropoieta listed are: the Image of Edessa, described as still at Edessa; the image of the Virgin at Lod...
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  • man. The Image of Edessa is also known as the Mandylion. Two images are claimed to be the Mandylion: the Holy Face of Genoa at the Church of St. Bartholomew...
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    Jude holding an image of Jesus, known as the Image of Edessa. In some instances, he may be shown with a scroll or a book (the Epistle of Jude) or holding...
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    Osroene (redirect from King of Edessa)
    Kingdom of Osroene, also known as the "Kingdom of Edessa" (Classical Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܐܘܪܗܝ / "Kingdom of Urhay"), according to the name of its capital...
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    one of the first and long the most famous examples. This was later credited with the failure of the Persian siege of Edessa in 544. But the image is not...
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    acheiropoieta are the Image of Camuliana and the Image of Edessa (also called the "Mandylion"). Both of these were icons of Jesus reported to have existed in the...
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    and Roman Catholicism. The Shroud of Turin is now the best-known example, though the Image of Edessa and the Veil of Veronica were better known in medieval...
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    1534 (Gerard of St. Quentin de l'Isle, Paris) and year 1740. See Grove Dictionary of Art, Steven Runciman, Some Remarks on the Image of Edessa, Cambridge...
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    the Shroud of Turin with the legendary Image of Edessa although no legend connected with that image suggests that it contained the image of a beaten and...
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    differences in the historical descriptions of the Image of Edessa compared to the shroud. The Image of Edessa has according to her its origin in the resistance...
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  • period, e.g. the image of Edessa. The Veil of Veronica was accompanied by a narrative about the Passion of Jesus. A number of descriptions of Jesus have been...
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    originally referred to the Image of Edessa. According to Richard Barber (2004), the Grail legend is connected to the introduction of "more ceremony and mysticism"...
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    recounts the legend of the Image of Edessa as well as the legendary works of Addai and his disciple Mari in Mesopotamia. The story of how King Abgar and...
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    Saint Veronica (category Stations of the Cross)
    to Abgar is related to a similar legend in the Eastern Church, the Image of Edessa or Mandylion. The Encyclopædia Britannica says this about the legend:...
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    Abgar V (redirect from Abgar of Edessa)
    Syriac and other dialects of Aramaic), was the King of Osroene with his capital at Edessa. Abgar was described as "king of the Arabs" by the Roman historian...
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    Holy Lance (redirect from Spear of Destiny)
    Holy Sponge – Instrument of the Passion of Jesus Christ Image of Edessa – Painting of Jesus Christ's face Seamless robe of Jesus – Robe said to have...
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    no image, unlike the markings on the Shroud of Turin. The sudarium is linked to a face cloth in the empty tomb mentioned by John 20:6–7. Outside of the...
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    Acheiropoieta Black Madonna of Częstochowa Image of Camuliana Image of Edessa Relics associated with Jesus Shroud of Turin Sudarium of Oviedo Cardiel, Victoria...
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    Ancha icon (redirect from Icon of Ancha)
    "holy tile" imprinted with the face of Jesus Christ miraculously transferred by contact with the Image of Edessa (Mandylion). Dated to the 6th-7th century...
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    Icon (redirect from Icon image file)
    references for other images in the tradition. Beside the developed legend of the mandylion or Image of Edessa was the tale of the Veil of Veronica, whose very...
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    typically dated after the public appearance of the Image of Edessa in 544, and considers the iconoclasm controversy of the eighth century as the most probably...
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    According to tradition, the latter of the two apostles is said to have cured Abgar V of Edessa of leprosy with the Image of Edessa, leading to his conversion...
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    Sainte-Chapelle (category Crown of thorns)
    built to house Louis IX's collection of relics of Christ, which included the crown of thorns, the Image of Edessa, and some thirty other items. Louis purchased...
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    Son of God continues to be crucified". Belief in the existence of authentic images of Christ is connected with the old legend of Abgar of Edessa regarding...
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    Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured Tiberius. This Western rival to the Image of Edessa or Mandylion eventually...
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  • VP8 Image Analyzer is an analog computer produced by Pete Schumacher of Interpretations Systems Incorporated (ISI) in 1972. It has been used to image the...
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    Constantine VII (category Patrons of literature)
    Canberra 2012 (Byzantina Australiensia 18). Constantine VII, 'Story of the Image of Edessa', tr. B. Slater, J. Jackson, in I. Wilson, The Turin Shroud (1978)...
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    Addai of Edessa (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ, Mar Addai or Mor Aday sometimes Latinized Addeus) or Thaddeus of Edessa was one of the seventy disciples of Jesus....
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