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Veronica Image of Jesus
The Veronica Image of Jesus
According to legend, a women named Veronica approached Jesus while he was carrying his cross to Golgotha and wiped his face with her veil. According to this legend, a portrait of Jesus's face was imprinted on the cloth. The name Veronica seems to have been derived from two words, vera and icon, meaning true image. The Veronica legend, which is medieval, may have developed over confusion with references to the Cloth of Edessa. Joe Nickell write in his boon, Inquest on the Shroud of Turin": The Veronica tradition, which dates from the fourteenth century, derives from the Edessan one, which has been traced to an account (about 325) by Bishop Eusebius. As Nickell demonstrates, this confusion continues to this day. The Veronica has absolutely nothing to do with the Shroud of Turin except that the nature of the image. According to Ian Wilson in "The Mysterious Shroud" (1986): In the Papal Jubilee Year of 1350, pilgrims flocked to Rome to see special expositions of the Veronica, a cloth reputedly imprinted with sweat and blood wiped from Jesus' face as he carried his cross along the Via Dolorosa. During the expositions, a beautiful Byzantine canopy was held over the Veronica. This showed Jesus laid out in death in the identical manner of the Shroud, and could have been the very source of inspiration for the hypothetical artist who created the Shroud image Mandylion 3. silly"
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