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The Holy Face of Jesus is a title for specific images which some Catholics believe to be miraculously formed representations of the face of Jesus Christ. The image obtained from the Shroud of Turin is associated with a specific medal worn by some Roman Catholics and is also one of the Catholic devotions to Christ .
The home of the Archconfraternity is the Centre Spirituel de la Sainte Face in Tours, run by the Dominican Fathers of the French Province. In 1960, the Confraternity of the Holy Face was canonically erected at Carmelite Monastery of the Little Flower of Jesus, in Buffalo, New York; it is affiliated with the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face at Tours, France. [3]
Further visions reportedly urged her to make a medal with the Holy Face based on the image from Secondo Pia's photograph of the Shroud of Turin. In 1958, Pope Pius XII approved of the devotion and the Holy Face medal and allowed for the remembrance of the Holy Face of Jesus on Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) for all Roman ...
Mary of Saint Peter (French: Marie de Saint-Pierre; 4 October 1816 – 8 July 1848) was a Discalced Carmelite nun who lived in Tours, France.She is best known for starting the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus which is now one of the approved Catholic devotions and for The Golden Arrow prayer.
Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, ordained and then consecrated clergy for the Carmelites of the Holy Face, giving them valid holy orders. Revaz, along with the McElligotts, [ 65 ] an Irish Palmarian family who had property in Switzerland, [ 66 ] drove from Switzerland to Rome to approach the ...
Veronica holding her veil, Hans Memling, c. 1470 The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand").
The Archconfraternity of the Holy Face was erected in Tours, France in 1885. It is based at the Centre Spirituel de la Sainte Face in Tours, run by the Dominican Fathers of the French Province. Archconfraternity of Christian Mothers: The Confraternity of Christian Mothers began in Lille, France in 1850.
Maria Pierina De Micheli (11 September 1890 – 26 July 1945) was a Roman Catholic religious sister who was born near Milan in Italy.She is best known for her association with devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and for introducing a medal bearing an image from the Shroud of Turin as part of this devotion.