Chrysanthemums on Pictures of Jesus from the Shroud of Turin |
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Pictures of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin > Picture of Jesus On the Shroud of Turin, there is a very distinct pattern that looks like a flower. Whether it is a real flower image or an anomaly is not clear. Nonetheless, it does look like a flower. It is often referred to as the chrysanthemum image because it resembles that flower. Avinoam Danin, a botany professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading authority on the flora of Israel, has identified it as a Chrysanthemum coronarium, one of several plant images he believes can be seen on the Shroud. It is located on the Shroud above and to the side of the face at about a 45 degree angle.
This flower motif became a symbol for artistic renderings of Jesus by at least the middle of the sixth century. Notice the flower images on the Christ Pantocrator icon from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai. This icon dates from about 550 AD, roughly the same time that the Edessa Cloth (believe to be the Shroud of Turin) was discovered hidden above the city gates of Edessa. Many people believe that this icon was based on the image on the Shroud.
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