According to Christian tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus Christ had been imprinted—the first icon (lit. 'image').

According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa, known to Orthodox Christians as the Holy Mandylion, was a holy relic - a piece of cloth allegedly containing the miraculous image of the face of Jesus imprinted upon it - the so-called first icon ("image").

The Image of Edessa, or Mandylion, is a legendary Christian relic believed to bear a miraculous imprint of Jesus Christ’s face on a cloth, considered the first icon. The Image of Edessa holds a significant place in Christian tradition as an acheiropoieton, or an “icon not made by hand.”

At the Seventh Ecumenical Council (AD 787), the bishops defended the veneration of images by teaching that Christ’s Himself provided an image for veneration, namely the Holy Image of Edessa! On August 16, 944, the Holy Image of Edessa was transferred from Edessa to …

2023年4月13日 · The Image of Edessa is a legendary relic that was said to bear the miraculous imprint of the face of Jesus Christ. It is also known as the Mandylion – a Greek Byzantine medieval word not applied...

2023年1月31日 · What is the Mandylion about? According to Christian Orthodox tradition, the image of Edessa was a sacred relic consisting of a rectangular cloth on which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus had been imprinted.

This is a study of the Image of Edessa, an image of Christ, which according to tradition was of miraculous origin. According to the underlying legend, Abgar, the king of Edessa and contemporary of Jesus of Nazareth, suffered from a skin disease, and thanks to one of his messengers who was passing through Jerusalem, found out that there was

2015年8月10日 · The Image of Edessa was an image of Christ, which according to tradition was of miraculous origin. It was taken from Edessa (mod. Sanliurfa, Turkey) to Constantinople in 944, and disappeared from known history in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

Known as the “Holy Mandylion” to Orthodox Christians, the Image of Edessa is a piece of cloth that is said to have been miraculously imprinted with the face of Jesus Christ. According to legend, the Image of Edessa was given to King Abgar …

Story Im. Ed. can be divided into three movements preceded by an extended introduction on the incomprehensibility of God’s providential works (1–3). The first re-tells the Abgar-Jesus correspondence and the actions of Thaddaeus in Edessa.