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Question: - Hello, I am looking for a copy of a particular icon
painted, purportedly with the Shroud of Turin as a model.
As I understand it, this icon is considered by many to be the most
accurate portrayal of Jesus available.
My question(s): to which icon are they referring?
Answer: Dear Sir Visitor ,
thank You very much for Your attention to our site and our work. Inorder
toanswer Your question we made a short investigation, finding the
theoretical material to see how historically appeared images, which would in the most close way be similar to the Holy Face of Christ
Our Lord.
Most trustable now seems to be a
scientific article of recent times, dedicated to this problem. I think it was
originally in English, but I found a Russian version only and so,
unfortunately, I can not insert here the entire text of it.
The article's titled "About the Byzantine history of the Holy Shroud of
Turin", if I translate it well, written by John P. Jackson, Rebekke S.
Jackson, Kit E.Propp in collaboration with I. Shalina.
The article speaks of author's investigations of the
pleats(?) (folds?) of the Holy Shroud, with citates of some medieval texts,
dedicated to the Shroud.
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And in few words I may
present the contents in such a way:
The authors discovered, that since the 10-th till
the 12-th century the Holy Shroud was always kept in a box in Vlacherna Holy
Virgin church, but for the great feasts it's upper part had been lifted up
and fixed on a frame, showing people the upper part, marked by the Holy Body of
Christ.
As
a proval for this may be taken the fact, that in this historical period
(11-th - 13-th centuries D.C.) appeared an eminent quantity of icons,
called "Christ in the Tomb".
So, this icon usually
representsthe upper part of the Holiest Body of Christ, rising over the edge of His
tomb. This icon became a canonical and traditional and there are many images of
such kind of images of various epoques.
Besides there are also some
images, which became very famous and venerated. There is also one of them in
Italy, in the Duomo of Lucca, it is called "Volto Santo", and I think it really has some reference to the Holy
Shroud. So, concluding my letter I would wish to thank You for making me do all
these researches because I discovered for myself many new things and
concepts. And in case if You would like to have an icon or a fresco, realized with orientation on a medieval image of the Holy
Shroud, it would be a very interesting work for us to work with this Holiest
image. Faithfully yours Web master.
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