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The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, [ 1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated. [ 2][ 3] By the Middle Ages, a number of documents, generally of unknown or questionable origin, had been ...
Alexamenos graffito. The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) [ 1]: 393 is a piece of Roman graffito scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy, which has now been removed and is in the Palatine Museum. [ 2] Often called the earliest depiction of Jesus, the ...
The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [ 18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
Pilate's court. Judgment of Jesus. 1st Station of the Calvary of the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Villamelendro de Valdavia. In the canonical gospels, Pilate's court refers to the trial of Jesus in praetorium before Pontius Pilate, preceded by the Sanhedrin Trial. In the Gospel of Luke, Pilate finds that Jesus, being from ...
A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose. [ 1] The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. [ 1] A cleft palate occurs when the palate (the roof of the mouth) contains an opening into the nose. [ 1] The term orofacial cleft refers to either condition or to both occurring together.
t. e. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus. The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century. [ 1] The document is generally considered to be Gnostic in origin because of references in letters (by Hippolytus of ...
According to Christian tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus Christ had been imprinted—the first icon ( lit.'image' ). The image is also known as the Mandylion ( Greek: μανδύλιον, 'cloth' or 'towel'), [ 1 ] in Eastern Orthodoxy ...
The image of the Divine Mercy is a depiction of Jesus Christ that is based on the Divine Mercy devotion initiated by Faustina Kowalska . According to Kowalska's diary, Jesus told her "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death.