Jesus carried the cross on Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the path
that Jesus
walked, carrying his cross, on the way to his crucifixion. The Via Dolorosa (Latin,"Way of
Grief", "Way of Sorrows", "Way of Suffering" or simply
"Painful Way") is a street.
How was Jesus did that gain of pain with his Divine Mercyfull
face? So we Just stay here for some truthful message.
"GOD REVEALS TRUTH"
If you compare the face of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin to the face on the Christ Pantocrator icon in St. Catherine's Monastery, are you ready.........there are over 240 "points of similarity"!!
Scholars have said to actually look at a picture and then be able to
paint it as exact as this would nearly be impossible, especially in the 6th
& 7th centuries.
The artist of the Christ Pantocrator I'm sure did not have the Shroud of Turin to go by when he painted the icon of Jesus. If the the Shroud of Turin is authentic, this would make the Christ Pantocrator icon the most accurate image of the "Real Face Of JESUS CHRIST".
There
are, however, some images which have been claimed to realistically show how
Jesus looked.
One early tradition, recorded by Eusebius of Caesarea(also called Eusebius
of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili) was a Roman historian He became the Bishop of Early
centers of Caesarea
about the year 314 A.D),
says that Jesus once washed his face with water and then
dried it with a cloth, leaving an image of his face imprinted on the cloth.
This was sent by him to King Abgarus
of Edessa,
KING ABGARUS OF EDESSA
LUKE AS AN ARTIST
Christian
tradition states that he was the first icon painter, although in
the Early Middle Ages he was thought to have been only one of several New
Testament figures who practiced as an artist. He is said to have painted
pictures of the Virgin Mary and Child, in particular the Hodegetria
image in Constantinople (now lost). The total number of
icons claiming to have been painted by Luke is said to have reached 600 during
the Middle Ages, including for example, the Black Madonna of Częstochowa and Our Lady of Vladimir. He was also said to
have painted Saints Peter and Paul, and to have illustrated a
gospel book with a full cycle of miniatures.
Late
medieval Guilds of St Luke in the cities of Late
Medieval Europe, especially Flanders, or the "Accademia di San Luca" (Academy of
St. Luke) in Rome—imitated in many other European cities during the 16th
century—gathered together and protected painters. The tradition that Luke
painted icons of Mary and Jesus has been common, particularly in Eastern
Orthodoxy.
Now uses the image of the face on the shroud as it appeared
in the negative of the photograph taken by amateur photographer Secondo Pia in 1898.The image cannot be clearly seen on the shroud itself with
the naked eye, and it surprised Pia to the extent that he said he almost
dropped and broke the photographic plate when he first saw the developed
negative image on it in the evening of 28 May 1898.
Before 1898, devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus used an image based on the Veil of Veronica, where legend recounts that Veronica from Jerusalem
encountered Jesus along the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary. When she paused to wipe the sweat from Jesus's face with
her veil, the image was imprinted on the cloth.
