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It is generally believed that Mary would have appeared to James through bilocation, as she was still living either in Ephesus or Jerusalem at the time of this event. She is believed to have died three to fifteen years after Jesus' death. After establishing the church, James returned to Jerusalem with
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River with some of his disciples, Mary miraculously appeared before him atop a pillar accompanied by angels. Mary assured James that the people would eventually be converted and their faith would be as strong as the pillar she was standing on. She gave him the pillar as a symbol and a wooden image of
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distinguished two types: "Either they are images believed to have been made by hands other than those of ordinary mortals or else they are claimed to be mechanical, though miraculous, impressions of the original". The belief in such images became prominent only in the 6th century, by the end of which
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would celebrate masses in the small sanctuary where it was housed, and at times would kiss its feet. Although no longer a specific liturgical object, some Romans still venerate this icon, considering it a last hope in disasters and memorable events in the capital, a veneration which can be compared
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is attested to by Father Donato da Bomba in his "Relatione historica" research tracing back to 1640. Studies in the early 2010s revealed noted congruities with the Shroud. In September 2006 Pope Benedict XVI made a private pilgrimage to the shrine, his first as pope, raising it to the status of a
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to have been created by conventional means in New Testament times, often by New Testament figures who, like many monks of the later period, were believed to have practiced as artists. The best known of these, and the most commonly credited in the West, was Saint Luke, who was long believed to have
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Damon, P. E.; D. J. Donahue; B. H. Gore; A. L. Hatheway; A. J. T. Jull; T. W. Linick; P. J. Sercel; L. J. Toolin; C. R. Bronk; E. T. Hall; R. E. M. Hedges; R. Housley; I. A. Law; C. Perry; G. Bonani; S. Trumbore; W. Woelfli; J. C. Ambers; S. G. E. Bowman; M. N. Leese; M. S. Tite (February 1989).
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wrote to Jesus, asking him to come cure him of an illness. Abgar received an answering letter from Jesus, declining the invitation, but promising a future visit by one of his disciples. Along with the letter went a likeness of Jesus. This legend was first recorded in the early fourth century by
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This is a tridimensional image of Jesus Christ crucified that comes from the 16th century, and it is attributed to a miraculous event occurred to an Amerindian woman of this South American Andean region, who worked washing clothes for wealthy families of the city of Buga.
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in Rome were forbidden to exhibit their rival image in 1517 to avoid competition with the Vatican Veronica; it is also now in the Vatican. Like the Genoa image, it is painted on panel and therefore is likely to have always been intended to be a copy.
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In 1979 Philip Callahan, (biophysicist, USDA entomologist, NASA consultant) specializing in infrared imaging, was allowed direct access to visually inspect and photograph the image. He took numerous infrared photographs of the front of the
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of key narrative scenes, seemed to have their authenticity confirmed by images believed to have been created either by direct witnesses or those able to hear the accounts of witnesses, or alternatively God himself or his angels.
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On October 5, 2006, a team of specialists, using four different complementary technologies: X-rays, ultraviolet rays, pigment and stratigraphic analysis of the image, certified its well-preserved condition.
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as well as icons, and their images were naturally seen as especially authoritative as to the true appearance of the subject. Like other icon types believed to be painted from the live subject, such as the
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This full length image of the Virgin is said to have miraculously been created at the unusually late date of 1531 (for the Western church) in Mexico, where it continues to enjoy an enormous reputation.
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The nine other miracles listed deal with the maintenance rather than creation of icons, which resist or repair the attacks of assorted pagans, Arabs, Persians, scoffers, madmen, iconoclasts and Jews.
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a cloth woven or embroidered by the Virgin herself with figures of Jesus and the apostles. The apostles were also said to have been very active as patrons, commissioning cycles in
1189: 1722:, Christusbilder - Untersuchungen Zur Christlichen Legende, Orig. edit. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs´sche buchhandlung, 1899. New edit. Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints 2009. 207:. Beside, and conflated with, the developed legend of the Image of Edessa, was the tale of the Veil of Veronica, whose name was wrongly interpreted in a typical case of 1618: 1575:
No. III (March 1981, 45pp.), Washington, D.C.; cf. Leatham, Miguel (2001). "Indigenista Hermeneutics and the Historical Meaning of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico,"
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in metal and gilded wood over it, replacing the one by Caradaossi (1452–1527) lost during the sack of Rome in 1527. The image itself was last inspected by the
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had the Virgin Mary sit for her portrait, but in the East a number of other figures were believed by many to have created images, including narrative ones.
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first of four installments of an audiovisual presentation relating the holy image with a number of ancient predecessors, YouTube, access date March 2013.
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occupation of Thessaloniki). Sometime before the Ottoman occupation and prior to the twelfth century, the mosaic icon was rediscovered by a monk from
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lxxxvi, 2, cols. 2748f, noted by Runciman 1931, p. 240, note 5; remarking that "the portrait of Christ has entered the class of αχειροποίητοι icons".
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in Jerusalem. The icon is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patroness of Jerusalem. The commonly-held story regarding the origins of the
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Such beliefs clearly projected contemporary practices back to the 1st century, and in their developed form are not found before the lead-up to the
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Eusebius, who said that he had transcribed and translated the actual letter in the Syriac chancery documents of the king of Edessa. Instead,
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James, Liz; Nicholson, Oliver; Scott, Roger, eds. (2021). "Women remembering women? The 'Miracle in Latomos' motif in medieval Macedonia".
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first of four installments of an audiovisual presentation relating a number of ancient predecessors, YouTube, access date March 2013.
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was the most famous Greek example, certainly from the time it reached Constantinople in 574, after which it was used as a
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in the eighth century and a period of time in the fifteenth century when the church of Hosios David was converted to an
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cloth bearing the hidden image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with
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This image, also called the Uronica, is kept in what was once the pope's private chapel, in a room now known as the
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Brenda M. Bolton, "Advertise the Message: Images in Rome at the Turn of the Twelfth Century" in Diana Wood (ed)
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It is thought that the icon was painted in Rome between the 5th and 6th century. Today only slight traces under
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which are said to have come into existence miraculously; not created by a human. Invariably these are images of
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is that it miraculously appeared in the year 1870. This story became popular due to a leaflet released by the
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This list seems to have had a regional bias, as other then-famous images are not mentioned, such as the
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Kitzinger, 111-112; Emerick, 356-357. Most fully covered by Von Dobschütz, like most of the images here
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Two documentary inventories: year 1534 (Gerard of St. Quentin de l'Isle, Paris) and year 1740. See
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recorded from an early period, miraculously imprinted with the face of Christ by contact with the
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Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Scientific approach to the Acheiropoietos Images
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in Rome. The legend is that this image was begun by Luke the Evangelist and finished by angels.
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Cormack, Robin, Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and its Icons, London: George Philip, 1985,
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herself. James was also instructed to build a chapel on the spot where she left the pillar.
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The doors protecting the icon, also in embossed silver, are of the 15th century. It has a
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was unexpectedly allowed to photograph it. The shroud is kept in the royal chapel of the
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and icons miraculously protected is given as evidence for divine approval of icons. The
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online audio visual featuring texts by sudarium expert Sr. Blandina Paschalis Schlömer
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online audio visual featuring texts by sudarium expert Sr. Blandina Paschalis Schlömer
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Steven Runciman, Some Remarks on the Image of Edessa, Cambridge Historical Journal 1931
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high, at Lod in Israel, which was said to have miraculously appeared in another church.
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to mean "true icon" or "true image", the fear of a "false image" remaining strong.
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Although it is now little known, having probably been destroyed in the period of
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The first record of the existence of a physical image in the ancient city of
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According to ancient Spanish tradition in the early days of Christianity,
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in the 10th century. The cloth disappeared from Constantinople during the
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Grigg, Robert, "Byzantine Credulity as an Impediment to Antiquarianism",
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some of his disciples where he became a martyr, beheaded in 44 AD under
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Official celebration in the religious Catholic calendar: September 14.
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Translation of the Image "Made-Without-Hands" of our Lord Jesus Christ
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Miraculous painting granted to the monastery - (Fra Frangipane) by
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According to Christian legend, the image of Edessa, (known to the
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After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett
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A further and larger group of images, sometimes overlapping with
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The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453: Sources and Documents
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10th century depiction of the legend of King Abgarus of Edessa
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an image of the Gothic reliquary dating from the 13th century
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Lord of Miracles or of Waters, appeared in Buga, 16th century
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The image in its setting in the Pontifical Sanctuary of the
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icon can be traced back to the late third century AD when
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painted on wood panel, they exist in other media, such as
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Callahan, Philip: "The Tilma under Infrared Radiation",
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is considered to be the first of its type, depicting an
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and some believe it to be the very cloth that covered
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Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena
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has approved the image's use in association with the
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or Holy Face (but not to be confused with the carved
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was said to have "illustrated his own account of the
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When she paused to wipe the sweat (Latin 637: 220:in popular tradition, were believed in the 39:: a traditional Orthodox interpretation of 1840: 1826: 1818: 1106:is one of the lesser-known acheiropoieta ( 2018:Fringe theories about the Shroud of Turin 1444: 1442: 1440: 948:(now Zaragoza), in the Roman province of 662:Veronica's Veil, known in Italian as the 1926:Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) 1296:. University of Toronto Press. pp.  1029:Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem 448:in 1204, reappearing as a relic in King 1734:The Tempietto Del Clitunno Near Spoleto 1211: 37:Image of the Saviour Made Without Hands 233:", Luke to have illustrated an entire 1612: 1610: 1608: 1155:scene that includes imagery from the 7: 1795:Icon "Made Without Hands" from Lydda 1222:The Tradition of the Image of Edessa 143:both the Mandylion and the Image of 1589:Keshman, Anastasia (January 2023). 1147:Thematically and artistically, the 821:Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist 765:monastery, in the small village of 334:another image of the Virgin, three 186:Such images functioned as powerful 612:art historian J. Wilpert in 1907. 581:remain of the original image of a 25: 1675:Early Christian and Byzantine Art 195:(thought to have been painted by 1931:Radiocarbon dating of the shroud 1881: 1617:Archos, Irene (5 October 2015). 1569:CARA Studies in Popular Devotion 803:of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is a 646:Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 460:. It finally disappeared in the 406:("image"). According to legend, 70:, 'made without hand'; singular 570:in a surviving part of the old 1863:History of the Shroud of Turin 746:In 1999, German Jesuit Father 536:Siege of Constantinople in 626 1: 1011:(All-Holy Lady of Jerusalem; 147:were well known. 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Index

Acheiropoietos

Simon Ushakov
Medieval Greek
Christian
icons
Jesus
Virgin Mary
Image of Edessa
Hodegetria
Shroud of Turin
Veil of Veronica
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Manoppello Image
icons
mosaics
Ernst Kitzinger
Camuliana
Antoninus of Piacenza
Veil of Veronica
Memphis, Egypt

God the Father
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Marian image
relics
Hodegetria
Luke the Evangelist
iconographic
depiction of Jesus

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