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Article: `True likeness' of Christ. (Art).(American Bible Society exhibit)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- September 11, 2002
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SEVERAL LEGENDS circulated in medieval Europe about the source of a "true likeness" of Christ. According to some stories, an image of Christ's face was retrieved from a towel on which Christ had dried his face. Another legend concerned an ancient emerald onto which the profile of Christ had been carved. The Grand Sultan of Constantinople presented the emerald to Pope Innocent VIII in 1492 for a political favor. The portrait above, painted in England, ...
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