All Hail The King
Mar 01, 2022
3 minutes
WRITER Rex Butler
Theologians have a fancy word or it: acheiropoeitos. Or “made without hand”. It refers to those religious icons that supposedly exist without human intervention, that just are the things they are meant to represent.
The most famous example is the Shroud of Turin, now housed in a cathedral in the Italian city of Turin, which is said to be an image of Christ formed when he was wrapped in a burial shroud immediately after being taken down from the cross. Now on a
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