Holy Face of Genoa

Holy Face of Genoa

This icon/image/likeness of Christ is held at the Church of St Bartholomew of the Armenians in Genoa, Italy. It was given to the doge of Genoa in the 14th century by Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos. The outer frame has been dated to the 14th century, and the image itself is apparently made on a cloth that had subsequently been affixed to a piece of wood. In Genoa, it is sometimes called the “Santo Mandillo,” an obvious reference to the Greek mandylion. It is believed by some to be the actual image of Edessa, thereby contradicting the reports that the relic disappeared from Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, or that it reappeared in Paris.

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