on the connection between the Edessa image and the Grail; Mark Guscin, on the sudarium of Oviedo; Professor Pierluigi Baima Bollone, on the purported lepton coin over the man of the Shroud's left eyelid;

developed by Ian Wilson that links the Shroud with the Edessa image and expounded in that film persuasive. At the same time, a close look at the single C14 test performed in 1988 seems to leave some loose

also hitherto little-known depictions of the Image of Edessa, the Eastern Orthodox Church's fabled 'lost' cloth imprinted with Christ's image, controversially identified with the Shroud. "In April 1994

was pronounced on the occasion of the arrival of the Image of Edessa in Constantinople and was translated into English from the only known surviving manuscript of the sermon, recently rediscovered in

but obviously it is an attempt to imitate the Edessa image, i.e. the Shroud face. This is why it has been held in such veneration, and with some irony, as the original True Image is now also in the care

why was it converted into the portrait known as the Image of Edessa. Both papers can also be accessed via the "1998 Turin Symposium" section of the "Shroud Conferences & Symposia" page as well as the

on the connection between the Edessa image and the Grail; Mark Guscin, on the sudarium of Oviedo; Professor Pierluigi Baima Bollone, on the purported lepton coin over the man of the Shroud's left eyelid;

In 750 John Damascene called the Image of Edessa – allegedly sent to Edessa by Jesus, and often regarded as the Turin Shroud – a himation (= mantle, cf. Mark 10:50, John 19:5). In 1204 the Shroud

known under different names, such as the Image of Edessa (Mandylion – the cloth ―folded in four‖ (Tetradyplon – or the image ―not made by hands‖ (Acheiropoietos – Discovered in Edessa

missing link" between the Mandylion/Image of Edessa and the Shroud of Turin. Enquiries made to the Courtauld Institute of Art have so far revealed no independent photographs of the fresco. However it