May 27, 2013
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what Jesus really looked like
this is Jesus’ face. It is on a very old cloth about 6″x9″ woven from the hairs of mussel shells.
“Veronica’s Veil.” Veronica meaning “true image or icon” – Ver for veritas. hence, Veronica.
Some people say it cannot be Jesus’ true face because it doesn’t fit with the face on the Shroud of Turin. But the two images are different in some ways, and alike in some ways. They are alike in that in BOTH this cloth, which was a ladies’ hankie, and the Shroud burial cloth, which is linen, the image is not ON the cloth, it IS the cloth. The fiber is changed in the cloth where the elements of the picture are located. Is that clear? There is no tint, paint, ocher or anything applied to either cloth. The fiber itself changes. Ok, that’s how both pictures are alike.
They differ in that this one, Veronica’s Veil, is an artistic rendering, while the Shroud is a reverse X-ray image of the entire body of Jesus, front and back. The picture on Veronica’s Veil is more of a drawing. Jesus drew it – miraculously! This is Jesus’ self-portrait! His face is Love, look at that.
His eyes are open; He was still alive. There are bruise marks, and some plucked beard marks – but Jesus was rocking the Cross! – although already having incurred a fatal injury, the scourging of 40x’s3=120 lashes. It was Love. Very cool picture that I would like to thank Pope Benedict XVI for resurrecting from the forgotten pile of history.