A Hitherto Unknown 7th century reference to the image of Edessa In the current international political climate Baghdad might seem an unlikely place from which to expect any fresh evidence in support

The Image of Edessa and its Progeny in art and spirituality By Andrew Willie The catalyst for writing up this personal pilgrimage is our Editor’s excellent, scholarly book on the Image of Edessa.

the source for the stoning of the Image in Edessa, but hopefully it does exist somewhere, and it will then be the second 6th-century record of the Image of Edessa, excluding the Acts of Mari and Acts

literature it occurs only in association with the image of Edessa, being scarcely, therefore, an idle turn of phrase." [50] As Wilson convincingly suggests, if the Shroud of Turin were folded in this

Background On 15th August 944, the Image of Edessa, the ¢ceiropoi» toj image (not made by human hands), came to the imperial capital Constantinople from Edessa (today's Sanli- Urfa in Turkey).

mentions the image of Edessa “not made by human hands” [a=.9, f=.001, n=.099, ia=.05, if=.005, in =.05, p=.7] 77) It is previous than the Pray manuscript (Budapest, 1192-95). In an image, contained

Note: Just before the Image of Edessa-Mandylion-Shroud was rediscovered in A.D. 525, a new Hagia Sophia was planned specifically to house this sacred linen "portrait." Wilson calls our attention to a

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

acquisition in favor of the identification of the Edessa Image with the Shroud. We also thank him for the reporting of an interesting document: the Codex Vossianus Latinus Q 69, preserved in the library

GUSCIN, Mark - The Image of Edessa - Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2009 (English) Volume 82 of the series The Medieval Mediterranean: People, Economies and Cultures 400-1500 ed.Hugh Kennedy (Added 10 May 09)