The Face Of Christ

[RedSnapper]

I posted this here before but didn't get too much of an answer. Thank you "Blazer" for your response.

This was my post:

"I don't know if this is the place to ask this question but I am putting it here as this looks like there are some great answers.

Do they ever bring out that veil that is in a reliquary in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome that is supposed to be the face of Christ? If so, when, how often and if not, why not?

That was more than one question.

I have seen various (supposed) pictures of it here and there but wouldn't it be great to see the one in Rome?

AMDG
Red Snapper


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BLAZEr Posted: Apr 13 2004, 10:05 PM


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Maybe some of our Rome scholars can help me out . . . but I'm pretty sure it is put on display on the feast of St. Veronica, if not every year, then every few years.


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"Your holiness shall consist of being truly human, not angelic. God has plenty of angels."
--St Leopoldo Mandich

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Now I know we should try to see the face of Christ in our brothers but I am also very interested to see what is supposed to be the real thing (right??).

Is the veil in the Basilica just a copy? Is it real?

AMDG,
RS

[Pontifex]

This is a press release from Zenit in 1999. Some Theologians seem to think that the story of Veronica could very well be a Legend, but that the Relic is definitely real. What makes me think that the it could be Legend is that the word Veronica is actually broken up into two parts to describe the Relic. Vera icona is a combonation of Latin and Greek words that means, "True Image." So we could probably safely say that the woman's name was not really Veronica, but it doesn't mean that she didn't exist.

Peace,
Fr. Pontifex

PRIEST REDISCOVERS "VEIL OF VERONICA" IN ITALIAN ABBEY
Relic Stolen from Vatican in 17th Century

ROME, JUN 3 (ZENIT).- Almost four centuries after its mysterious disappearance, German Jesuit Fr. Heinrich Pfeiffer reports that he has rediscovered the legendary veil of Veronica, with which Jesus wiped his face on the road to Calvary. Fr. Pfeiffer, a professor of Christian Art History at the Pontifical Gregorian University, found the relic in the abbey of Monoppello, Italy, high in the Apennine Mountains.

A small piece of stained pale cloth kept in this tiny village has long been regarded as a sacred icon with wondrous properties by Father Germano, head of its Capuchin monastery. Fr Pfeiffer, official advisor for the Papal Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, concurs. "Yes, I am firmly convinced of it, that this is the famous relic," he told reporters in a press conference Monday.

This is a full copy of the press release:

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