The exact location of the Pool of Siloam, where Jesus is said to have performed one of his most renowned miracles by healing ...

Known as the Pool of Siloam, for centuries it was thought to be situated on the site of what became a Byzantine church in the ...

Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

Constantinople comes next, as the film traces from West Asia to Europe the route of the Mandylion of Edessa, with its miraculous image of the face of Jesus.

Over the centuries, many people have asked: “What did Jesus look like?” A new documentary attempts to answer this question. “The Face of Jesus” examines two acheiropoietic images of Christ ...

Abgar with image of Edessa 10th C Seventh Sunday after Easter 1. To see Christ? How do you visualise Jesus? Christian art has consolidated around one particular type of image, we recognise it ...

Saint Thomas by Caravaggio. Credit: Wikimedia Commons India has a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Eastern Orthodox faith stems from the Apostolic Church, brought by Saint Thomas ...

Millions of Christians from all denominations believe that the Shroud of Turin is the authentic burial cloth used to wrap Jesus after his death on the cross. What “caused” a front to back linear ...

Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees join the annual traslacion procession in Manila, celebrating the Feast of Jesus Nazareno expressing deep-rooted Catholic faith amidst a vibrant sea of ...

Around the time the Shroud is believed to have come to Edessa, a radical shift occurred in Christian iconography, depicting Jesus with Aryan-like features and long hair, exactly as seen on the shroud.

Most people today have a visual image of Christ. Long haired and bearded, simply dressed in homespun cloth, portrayed with varying degrees of Middle Eastern appearance (sometimes not), often with an ...