HANDMADE CARVED AROMATIC ICON BLESSED FROM MOUNT ATHOS OF HOLY MANDYLION WIDTH: 6 CM OR 2.4 IN LENGTH: 14 CM OR 5.5 IN Description: This is a handcrafted icon of Holy Mandylion made solely from three 100% natural ingredients. Pure bees wax and incense from Mount Athos and mastic from Chios Island. It is carved by hand and emits a distinct aroma of its ingredients, which takes you to a monastic atmosphere. This should only to be placed away from sunlight and extreme heat over 50 oC

HANDMADE CARVED AROMATIC ICON BLESSED FROM MOUNT ATHOS OF HOLY MANDYLION

WIDTH: 6 CM OR 2.4 IN LENGTH: 14 CM OR 5.5 IN

This is a handcrafted icon of Holy Mandylion made solely from three 100% natural ingredients. Pure bees wax and incense from Mount Athos and mastic from Chios Island. It is carved by hand and emits a distinct aroma of its ingredients, which takes you to a monastic atmosphere. This should only to be placed away from sunlight and extreme heat over 50 oC

The Holy Mandylion (Napkin) of Christ (Not-made-by-hands) 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 was imprinted - the first icon ("image"). In Eastern Orthodoxy, and often in English, the image is known as the Mandylion. According to the legend, King Abgar of Edessa wrote to Jesus, asking him to come cure him of an illness. Abgar received a reply letter from Jesus, declining the invitation, but promising a future visit by one of his disciples. This legend was first recorded in the early 4th century by Eusebius of Caesarea, who said that he had transcribed and translated the actual letter in the Syriac chancery documents of the king of Edessa, but who makes no mention of an image. Instead, the apostle "Thaddaeus" is said to have come to Edessa, bearing the words of Jesus, by the virtues of which the king was miraculously healed. The report of an image, which accrued to the legendarium of Abgar, first appears in the Syriac work, the Doctrine of Addai: according to it, the messenger, here called Ananias, was also a painter, and he painted the portrait, which was brought back to Edessa and conserved in the royal palace. The first record of the existence of a physical image in the ancient city of Edessa (now Urfa) was in Evagrius Scholasticus, writing about 593, who reports a portrait of Christ, of divine origin (θεότευκτος), which effected the miraculous aid in the defence of Edessa against the Persians in 544. The image was moved to Constantinople in the 10th century. The cloth disappeared from Constantinople during the Sack of Constantinople in 1204, during the Fourth Crusade, reappearing as a relic in King Louis IX of France's Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. It finally disappeared in the French Revolution.

The vicissitudes of the Edessa letter between the 1st century and its location in his own time are not reported by Eusebius. The materials, according to the scholar Robert Eisenman, "are very widespread in the Syriac sources with so many multiple developments and divergences that it is hard to believe they could all be based on Eusebius' poor efforts" (Eisenman 1997:862). The Eastern Orthodox Church have a feast of this icon on August 16 (August 29 in N.S.), which commemorates its translation from Edessa to Constantinople.

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