The tradition of Veronica and her veil has been passed down through the centuries. It was not recorded in the List of books (Canon) of the Bible, although the story was written by an early Christian into the apocryphal “Acts of Pilate.”
Heinrich Pfeiffer, professor of Christian art history at the Vatican's Gregorian University, says that the veil in St. Peter's is only a copy, however. ( Remember we stated the various versions of this veil in the previous series). The original, he says, mysteriously disappeared from Rome in 1608.
According to records in the monastery, the wife of a soldier sold the veil to a nobleman of Monoppello in 1608 to get her husband out of jail. The nobleman, it turn, donated it to the Capuchins. In 1618, it was placed in a walnut frame adorned in silver and gold between two sheets of glass. It remained in the monastery every since. Fr. Pfeiffer invested 13 years of searching through archives to prove that this is the same cloth that disappeared in 1608.
In John 20:7, a piece of cloth was used to wrapped around Jesus' head. This is supposedly the cloth which the inhabitants of Manoppello have always regarded as the one they have in their town. This cloth is sometimes known as the "SWEAT CLOTH." So the Manoppello Image may not be the Veronica's veil but the napkin used to wrap the head of Jesus in the tomb after the embalmment.
"To conclusively prove the origin of the cloth, scientific tests will be necessary. However, these could easily destroy the small and delicate cloth without solving the mystery, much as the negative Carbon-14 tests have failed to conclusively disprove the authenticity of Shroud of Turin."
“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, LORD, do I seek. Psalm 27:8 (NRSV)
To be Continued....
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