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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]
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, [ 64 ] an Irish Palmarian family who had property in Switzerland, [ 65 ] drove from Switzerland to Rome to approach the ...
Inspired by her efforts to promote devotion to the Holy Face, Grefori became similarly dedicated. Sister de Micheli died in Milan in 1945. In 1950, the Venerable Abbot Hildebrand Gregori formed the organization "Prayerful Sodality" which in 1977 became the Pontifical Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face. [3]
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.
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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").