| Early
1st Century |
Edessa
is evangelized. Tradition is that Jude Thaddeus travels to
Edessa and brings a likeness of Jesus, what comes to be known as
the Image of Edessa or the Mandylion. |
| Early
4th Century |
From
Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiatical History we learn
of a letter in Edessa’s archives written by King Abgar V to
Jesus asking Him to come to Edessa to cure Abgar of leprosy. The
history reports that the Apostle Thomas does send JudeThaddeus. |
| Late
5th Century |
The
Doctrine of Addai (Thaddeus), mentions a portrait of Jesus attributed to Ananias, a member of
King Abgar's court. The portrait is said to have been painted
"with choice pigments" suggesting an image somewhat
more extraordinary than normal pigments would have
produced. |
| Early
6th Century |
The
Acts of the Holy Apostle Thaddaeus describes Jesus as wiping
his face on a towel (tetradiplon) and imprinting his
image. |
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|
Sindonologist
Jack Markwardt has proposed an alternate theory for the years
prior to 525/544. He argues that the burial Shroud of Jesus may
have been taken, by Peter, to Antioch around
47 CE, concealed for various and plausible reasons until taken
to Edessa by Monophysite refugees around 540 CE. Jack
Markwardt's Antioch and the Shroud is available at:
http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/markward.pdf
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| 525
or 544 CE |
Image
of Edessa is discovered or revealed in the city of Edessa. |
| Late
6th Century |
Evagrius
Scholasticus’ Ecclesiastical History mentions that
Edessa is protected by a "divinely wrought portrait" (acheiropoietis)
sent by Jesus to Abgar. |
| 730
CE |
St.
John Damascene in On Holy Images mentions a himation
which is translated as an oblong cloth or grave cloth. |
| 900's
CE |
 A
diptych painted in the tenth century shows a cloth with an image
of Jesus being held be King Abgar V. The shape of the cloth and
the centrality of a facial image suggest what may be the folded
Shroud. |
| 944
CE |
The
Image of Edessa is transferred to Constantinople by the
Byzantine emperor Romanus I. |
| 944
CE |
In
the Naration of the Image of Edessa, the cloth is
described as an acheiropoietos meaning an impression of God's
assumed form and as a moist secretion without coloring or
painter's art, and made of linen cloth. |
| 1204
CE |
The
Image of Edessa disappears when Constantinople is looted by the
Fourth Crusade. |
