mandylion

Meaning

Noun

• often Mandylion: the Image of Edessa, a holy relic consisting of a piece of cloth upon which an image of the face of Jesus Christ had been miraculously imprinted without human intervention (that is, an acheiropoieton); an artistic depiction of this relic.

Related

Similar words

• Image of Edessa

Origin

• From Byzantine Greek μανδύλιον, μανδίλιον, μαντίλιον, or μανδήλη (the last word dating to the 5th century), especially in the term τὸ ἄγιον μανδήλιον; from Latin mantelium, a variation of mantele or mantelum (probably misconstructed as a singular form from the plural mantelia); probably from manus + tergere. Probably cognate with Umbrian mantrahklu.