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mandylions

mandylions is the plural of mandylion.

Meaning of mandylion

Noun

mandylion (countable and uncountable, plural mandylions)

  1. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) 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.
    • The tradition of the sacred image is related to established prototypes […] handed down in Christian art, the most important [of which] is the acheiropoietos ("not made by human hands") image of the Christ on the Mandilion. It is said that the Christ gave His image, imprinted on a piece of fabric...1967, Titus Burckhardt; Lord Northbourne (Walter Earnest Christopher James), transl., Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and Methods, London: Perennial Books, OCLC 896652107; republished...
    Synonyms:
    Image of Edessa

Questions about mandylions

What is mandylions the plural of?
Mandylions is the plural of mandylion.

Words near mandylions in the dictionary

  1. Mandurriao
  2. mandy
  3. Mandya
  4. mandyas
  5. mandylion
  6. mandylions
  7. Mandys
  8. Mandæan
  9. Mandæism
  10. Mandé
  11. Mandés

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