once known as the Mandylion, or Image of Edessa, was taken from Constantinople in 1204 and brought to France, where it remained hidden until its appearance in the 1350s. Wilson’s hypothesis is not

At the fall of Constantinople in 1204 the Image of Edessa disappeared, ostensibly into the hands of the Templars, not to be seen again till its exhibition to the public as the Shroud in 1357. That is

So long as the portraited Shroud, known as the Image of Edessa, was kept “folded in four”, modesty-minded Christians,70 unaware of the naked sindonic body image, would continue to portray Jesus

After the discovery of the Image of Edessa, Justinian built Santa Sophia in which to preserve it and where it became a reference for artists. However, Edessa is far removed from Constantinople and

the portrait known as the holy Image of Edessa.147 THE SYRIAN GRAIL Hints of a lost Syrian sindonic history are to be found in the legends of the Holy Grail, an object which, in recent years, has been

the sacristan of the parish chapel where the image of Edessa was kept, described the ceremony in which he says: Here he rises again and the sindon or shroud is clear proof: s)l smel ing fragrant of

Scholastic speak about a miraculous origin of the Edessa image (pp. 282-285). 3. The hypothesis that the word tetrádiplon in the Acts of Thaddaeus, composed between 609 and 944, could refer to

This semilegendary account of the "Image of Edessa" describes it as having been hidden in a wall during a persecution in A.D. 57 and forgotten until its discovery during a siege of the city ca. 525. The

Emperor forcibly compelled the transfer of the original image from Edessa to Constantinople in order to obtain "a new, powerful source of divine protection" for the capital city.11 Consequently, the peoples

legends, the Edessa image would have reproduced itself by an unaccounted for contact. It would have reached Constantinople in 968 (ref 1). 39 See the reproduction by A. Grabar (ref 1) of the Greek