The True Icon: From the Shroud of Turin to the Veil of Manoppello
The Veil of Manoppello is the sudarium of Christ. This is the mysterious second cloth from the tomb of the crucified Christ that John the Evangelist discovered about 40 hours after the death of Jesus--together with another linen sheet, which is today preserved in Turin. --Paul BaddeThe Shroud is an Icon written in blood; the blood of a man who was scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified and whose right side was pierced. The Image impressed upon the Shroud is that of a dead man, but the blood speaks of his life. Every trace of blood speaks of love and of life. --Pope Benedict XVI