The Holy Veil of Manoppello: The Human Face of God

by Paul Badde

Book Overview

The horrific 1915 earthquake that levelled tiny Manoppello, Italy, brought forth from the local church's rubble one of Christendom's long-lost, but most precious relics: the small cloth that lay on Jesus's face in the tomb.

Saint John speaks of it in his Gospel: "When Peter went into the tomb, he saw linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622826485
• ISBN13: 9781622826483
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The Holy Veil

I have tried researching what I can about this incredible, Holy Veil of Manoppello, but wasn't yet able to gather as much as I had hoped - although what I DID find was more information than this book had, as far as the actual Veil itself. I was hoping that for the price of this book, it would be well worth the read, but unfortunately it didn't really provide much. The Holy Veil itself is a critical and historic find that should be spread far and wide.