The Holy Veil Of Manoppello - Human Face God By Paul Badde

Now, thanks to author Paul Badde you can learn of the loss and recovery of this precious relic. and at that same instant had imprinted on itself, miraculously, a vivid image of the now-resurrected Jesus. Unlike the Shroud, however, the Holy Face of Manoppello shows not the grim visage of a dead man with eyes closed, but the lively face of the living Christ, His eyes wide open, piercing us with their gaze. Better yet, by means of the dozens of color pictures in this book, you, too, can encounter this miraculous cloth, and finally gaze reverently on the face of the living Christ Himself! In 2006, Pope Benedict made a pilgrimage to Manoppello to pray before this image. This small veil now known as the Holy Face of Manoppello absorbed the very first new breath of the Risen Christ . , The Holy Veil of Manoppello - Human Face God by Paul Badde The horrific 1915 earthquake that levelled tiny Manoppello, Italy, brought forth from the local church's rubble one of Christendom's long-lost, but most precious relics: the small cloth that lay on Jesus's face in the tomb. The Holy Veil of Manoppello: The Human Face of GodThe horrific 1915 earthquake that leveled tiny Manoppello, Italy brought forth from the rubble a most precious relic. . Tradition says that Our Lady herself laid this cloth on His face before He was wrapped in His shroud for burial. Saint John speaks of it in his Gospel: When Peter went into the tomb, he saw linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. . Modern scholars have confirmed that this image corresponds perfectly in all its measurements to the face of the dead Christ on the more famous Shroud of Turin. In the decade since then, tens of thousands of other pilgrims have followed in the Pope's footsteps, making the trek to central Italy to meet Jesus face-to-face.

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The Holy Veil Of Manoppello - Human Face God By Paul Badde