Finishing Ph.D. at London University on the Image of Edessa, Member of EDICES, Editor of BSTS Newsletter. Remains of Ancient Writings on the Shroud and Passage Through the Order of the Templars: Two

describing the arrival in Constantinople of the Edessa Image (August 15th, 944), noticed something which cannot be seen on the Mandylion: blood and water from the side wound . He added also a very important

why it was converted into the portrait known as the Image of Edessa. In its original form the paper includes a very full set of references, but these have been reduced for the purposes of this Newsletter.

and also little-known depictions of the Image of Edessa, enthusiastically supporting the hypothesis that this lost cloth of the Eastern Orthodox Church was one and the same as the present-day ‘Turin’

some little-known and very inaccessible icons of the Image of Edessa preserved in Genoa and in Rome. Fossati notes that some of these incorporate piecesof herringbone twill linen, and argues that their

If Ian Wilson's thesis is accepted that the Image of Edessa-Mandylion- Shroud of Turin are one and the same, then this burial linen truly has traveled from the Tomb to Turin. In the process it has

Thought for centuries to be a cloth-borne image of the face of Jesus, the Edessa face icon was hinted already in the sixth century to be a much larger object and noticed in the tenth century to contain

linen cloth, an image that, as already said in reference to a certain iconography of Edessa, is comparable with that of the Shroud”13 (13). Only his final affirmation, regarding iconographic research,

Before the discovery of the Shroud in the West gate of Edessa in 525 the images of Jesus were the figment of the imagination of the artists concerned, and often had an Hellenistic influence. This can

Medieval forgery theory. This maintains that the image on the Shroud was forged immediately before its first documented European appearance at Lirey in France in the 1350s.28 This theory takes as its