The Mysterious Mandylion of Edessa? #shorts #viral #bible #mandylion #christianity

This miraculous image became known as the Mandylion (which translates in Byzantine Greek as 'small cloth') and was the most famous image of Christ 'not made by human hands' from the sixth to the early thirteenth century. A depiction of the Mandylion is found in the centre of this painting.

The Holy Mandylion disappeared again after the Sassanians conquered Edessa in 609. A local legend, related to historian Andrew Palmer when he visited Urfa (Edessa) in 1999, relates that the towel or burial cloth of Jesus was thrown into a well in what is today the city's Great Mosque. Seleucus I Nicator named the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia (modern Sanliurfa, Turkey) after the Macedonian Edessa. #shorts #viral #bible #mandylion #christianity