♥ THE REAL FACE OF JESUS CHRIST ♥

     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"

 

     The Shroud of Turin is the cloth that Jesus was wrapped in when He was burried in the tomb. When Jesus arose from the dead the cloth was left as if the body was still there, read John 20:5-7. Not only does the Shroud of Turin still exist, but it reveals an amazing & detailed impression of the body of Jesus Christ!

   

     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.

EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA 

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

     who had sent a messenger asking Jesus to come and heal him of his disease. This image, called the Mandylion or Image of Edessa, appears in history in around 525. Numerous replicas of this " image not made by human hands" remain in circulation. There are also icon compositions of Jesus and Mary that are traditionally believed by many Orthodox to have originated in paintings by Luke the Evangelist.

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.

 DIVINE MERCY IMAGE

A very popular 20th century depiction among Roman Catholics is the Divine Mercy image, following its approval by Pope John Paul II in April 2000. Faustina wrote in her diary that that Jesus appeared to her and asked her to "Paint an image according to the pattern you see".