Issue 51 Holy Face Newsletter / Video Log: Historical Mysteries of the Shroud Unpacked
It is recounted in tradition that when King Abgar of Edessa (in modern day Turkey) was seriously ill he wrote a letter to Jesus asking Him to come and heal him. Jesus's cousin St Jude later went to Edessa bringing with him an image of Jesus known as the Mandylion or Image of Edessa, which healed the King. The Mandylion was later lost for 400 years, rediscovered and brought to Constantinople in the 9th Centrury.
In 1978, A.N. Wilson wrote a book on the history of the Shroud in which he claimed that the Image of Edessa and the Shroud of Turin were in fact the same cloth. In this issue's video, Mike Creavey of The Gracious Guest Show interviews Justin Robinson, a member of the numismatic society and an historian of coins, to show how Byzantine coins from the 7th and 9th Century can provide strong evidence for Wilson's claims.
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