In 1915, a horrific earthquake
leveled the small town of
Manoppello, Italy.
This earthquake brought forth
from the local church’s rubble
one of Christendom’s long-lost,
but most precious relics . . .
. . . the small cloth that lay
on Jesus’s face in the tomb.
Tradition says that Our Lady
herself laid this cloth on His face
before He was wrapped in His
shroud for burial.
This small veil, known as
the Holy Face of Manoppello,
absorbed the very first new breath
of the Risen Christ . . .
. . . and at that same
instant had imprinted on itself,
miraculously, a vivid image of
the now-resurrected Jesus.
Modern scholars have
confirmed that this image corresponds
perfectly in all its measurements to the
face of the dead Christ on the more
famous Shroud of Turin.
Unlike the Shroud,
the Holy Face of Manoppello
shows not the grim visage of a
dead man with eyes closed.
It shows the lively face of the
living Christ, His eyes wide open,
piercing us with their gaze.
In 2006, Pope Benedict made
a pilgrimage to Manoppello to
pray before this image.
In the decade since then,
tens of thousands of other pilgrims
have followed in the Pope’s footsteps,
making the trek to central Italy
to meet Jesus face-to-face.
With dozens of color pictures,
you, too, can encounter this miraculous
cloth, and finally gaze reverently on the
face of the living Christ Himself.
The Holy of Manoppello
by Paul Badde
Paperback — 112 pages
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