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    Acheiropoieta (Medieval Greek: αχειροποίητα, 'made without hand'; singular acheiropoieton) — also called icons made without hands (and variants) — are...
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    reinforcing the bond of the state and the divine order. The tradition of acheiropoieta (ἀχειροποίητα, literally 'not-made-by-hand') accrued to icons that are...
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  • The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Judean from Galilee, has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity...
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    Catholics and is also one of the Catholic devotions to Christ. Various acheiropoieta (literally "not-handmade") items relating to Christ have been reported...
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    and increase the prestige of Rome and its pope by claiming a similar acheiropoieta, the Veil of Veronica. In later Western European tradition the main...
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  • Helena as a saint, as does also the Anglican Communion. A number of acheiropoieta (lit. 'made without hand'; icons not made by hand) images reported to...
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    Acheiropoieta Lateranese icon of Christ Pantocrator, known as the Veronica, that was supposedly begun by Saint Luke and finished as an acheiropoieta (which...
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    to at least the 6th century. Among the most prominent portable early acheiropoieta are the Image of Camuliana and the Mandylion or Image of Edessa, both...
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    Key artefacts to blur this boundary emerged in c. 570 in the form of acheiropoieta, images claimed to have been created miraculously or "not by human hands"...
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  • Svayambhuva Manu, the first man born during a given age of the earth. Acheiropoieta in the Christian tradition, literally, "works made without human hands"...
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