Holy Mandilion

The icon is made on a particle board with the use of the most advanced imprinting and production techniques. The background is decorated in a way that gives the impression of glossy gilding.

The Holy Mandilion (from Greek μανδύλιον "cloth, towel"), or the Image of Edessa, is one of the images not made by hands, through which Jesus Christ performed one of his many miracles. In Edessa, in Mesopotamia, there once lived a king named Abgar, who suffered from an incurable disease, leprosy. His painter Ananias, who was traveling through Judea, heard about Christ and reported it to his master. The king gave the painter a letter to Jesus, asking Him to visit and heal him. Christ has declined king's invitation, but He did not refuse to help him. According to tradition, the Mandilion was a square or rectangle of cloth upon which Jesus Christ allowed His image to be imprinted and which He then sent to Abgar, after which Abgar was healed.