the central archway. The Image of Edessa can just be seen (arrowed in red) at the apex of the second, right-hand archway. Photo by Mark Guscin, 2009. Below right: detail of the Virgin Mary from the

why was it converted into the portrait known as the Image of Edessa.1 THE MYSTERY OF THE FIRE Framing the thighs of the Shroud's ventral and dorsal body images2 are four sets of holes and burn marks,

p 331. Steven Runciman, Some remarks on the image of Edessa, The Cambridge Historical Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, p 238-252, 1931. André Grabar, La Sainte Face de Laon - Le Mandylion dans l'art Orthodox,

then, both the fabled Holy Grail as well as the Image of Edessa? DATING THE SHROUD In 1988, the carbon dating of the long linen cloth seemed to suggest a fourteenth-century origin for the cloth which

Image of Edessa." Why is it important for us? Because the author is surely an Edessan. As an inhabitant, he indirectly describes the relic and gives us the idea of its size. It is an anonymous chronicle

From Prof. Dan Scavone’s article on the Image of Edessa and the Holy Grail from BSTS Newsletter #56 The Holy Grail as a Christian object was never clearly defined. The best etymology of "grail"

Story of the Image of Edessa" (ca. A.D. 945), In Chapter 6, Jesus Himself is alleged to have directed Thomas to approach the courier Ananais while the latter is attempting to draw His portrait and bring

author of "Some Remarks on the Image of Edessa" (Cambridge Historical Journal 111, No. 3, 1931), a highly respected scholar, once said that: "Historians should not be so much victims to their skepticism

scene the Image of Edessa, the Mandylion, is clearly visible being held from the walls to defend the city from the Turks. If this were so, then it would indeed suggest that at least according to this

Cappadocia and their relation to the Shroud as the Image of Edessa. Lennox's arguments are already familiar to many BSTS members thanks to the fine lecture he gave to the Society on 27 April 1994, also