HOLY FACE OF JESUS

VEIL OF VERONICA

Locals in the remote town of Manoppello in Abruzzo maintain the icon was brought to them 500 years ago by a wandering pilgrim.

VEIL OF VERONICA

"This is the meaning of my visit. So that together we can try to better know the face of our Lord, so that from it we can find strength in love and peace that can show us the path," Benedict said. (August 2006)

SHROUD OF TURIN

SHROUD OF TURIN

Owned by the Vatican and stored in a protective chamber in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy In 1898, amateur Italian photographer Secondo Pia was startled by the negative of the image in his darkroom as he was developing the first photograph of the shroud.

SHROUD OF TURIN

On the evening of May 28th, 1898 he almost dropped and broke the photographic plate in the darkroom from the shock of seeing the image of a face on the Shroud (for the first time ever) that could not have been clearly observed with the naked eye.

SHROUD OF TURIN

On Sunday May 24th 1998 Pope John Paul II visited the Turin Cathedral. In his address on that day, he said that "the Shroud is an image of God's love as well as of human sin" and called the shroud "an icon of the suffering of the innocent in every age"

DEVOTIONS TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

The devotions to the Holy Face of Jesus involve two European nuns, both named after Saint Mary but who lived almost one hundred years apart. Both nuns reported visions of Jesus and Mary.

DEVOTIONS TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

The first nun was called Sister Marie of St Peter from Tours France and lived in the 1840s. In 1844, she had a vision in which Jesus told her: "Oh if you only knew what great merit

you acquire by saying even once, Admirable is the Name of God, in a spirit of reparation for blasphemy."
Her visions reportedly included the words to a specific prayer as an Act of Reparation to Jesus Christ which came to be known as The Golden Arrow Holy Face Devotion (Prayer). This prayer and the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus started to spread among Roman Catholics in France as of 1844.

DEVOTIONS TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

The second nun was called Sister Maria Pierina De Micheli and lived in the 1930s in Milan Italy. Reported a vision in which Jesus told her:

I will that My Face, which reflects the intimate pains of My Spirit, the suffering and the love of My Heart, be more honored. He who meditates upon Me, consoles Me.
Holy Face Medal: On one side the medal bears a replica of the Holy Face image from Shroud of Turin and an inscription based on Psalm 66:2

"May, O Lord, the light of Thy countenance shine upon us". On the other side of the medal, there
is an image of a radiant Sacred Host, the monogram of the Holy Name ("IHS"), and the inscription "Stay with us, O Lord". Many soldiers and sailors were given a Holy Face Medal as a means of protection.

DEVOTIONS TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

In another vision, Sister Maria Pierina reported that Jesus told her: Every time my Face

is contemplated I will pour out my love into the heart of those persons, and by means of my Holy Face the salvation of many souls will be obtained.
She further reported that Jesus wanted a special Feast on the day before Ash Wednesday in honor of His Holy Face.

VATICCAN APPROVAL
The first medal of the Holy Face was offered to Pope Pius XII who approved the devotion and the medal. In 1958, he formally declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) for all Roman Catholics. On the occasion of the 100th year of Secondo Pia's (May 28th 1898) first photograph of the Shroud of Turin, on Sunday May 24th 1998 Pope John Paul II visited the Turin Cathedral. In his address on that day, he said: "the Shroud is an image of God's love as well as of human sin" "it is an icon of the suffering of the innocent in every age."[3]

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THE SORROWFUL AND IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY