By Mark Guscin
A dead ringer for Edessa used to be a picture of Christ, which, in line with culture, was once of outstanding starting place. It was once taken from Edessa to Constantinople in 944, and disappeared from recognized background within the aftermath of the Fourth campaign in 1204. It generated, notwithstanding, an unlimited volume of literature and hundreds and hundreds of copies in church buildings everywhere in the Byzantine global. This e-book is a research of the literature, work, icons and different features concerning clone of Edessa. It examines the way it was once used as a device to precise Christs humanity and for numerous different reasons, and the way the various similar literature grew to become thoroughly decontextualised and used as a paranormal allure, in particular within the West.
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At night the bishop-Eulalius-had a vision of a well-dressed and adorned woman, better looking than any human being, telling him to get the image of Christ that had not been made 5 by human hands and parade it in a procession, and the Lord would certainly demonstrate his wonders. The bishop answered that he did not even know if the image existed, and if it did whether it was there or anywhere else. The one who had appeared to him in the form of a woman told him that it was hidden away above the city gate in such and such a place, and in such and such a way.
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