medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, March 24, 2008, at 11:53 am, Rosemary Hayes wrote:
> ... the Veronica is, traditionally,
> said to
> be a cloth that wiped the face of Jesus on his way to the cross and
> was left
> with an image of that face. My son tells me there are two possible
> Veronicas in St Peter's.
There's another candidate for the Veronica: the Volto Santo of Manoppello (a.k.a. the Veil of Manoppello). See this skeptical account (but ignore the dreadful synopsis of the town's medieval history):
www.shroud.com/pdfs/roberto.pdf
Also:
http://holy.harmoniae.com/misteri_manoppello.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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