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Gee, I hope that image in #17 is an "artist's rendition" of what the blood-on-cloth face would look like. I would have a hard time believing that was "not painted by human hands."

The JUNE 3 1999 !!! version of Fr. Pfeiffer's story

So it's been at least seven years since Fr. Pfeiffer made his "discovery" and there are still NO images on the internet besides the one Swordmaker posted in #17???

Excuse me if my skepticism starts to kick in.

Gee, I hope that image in #17 is an "artist's rendition" of what the blood-on-cloth face would look like

No. That's a photograph of it. The keepers of the veil will not allow it to be dismounted from the double sided glass fram it's held in. When it was put in the frame, it was apparently actually CUT to fit (not even a rectangular shape but sort of jagged cuts around the oval of the face)! It has the look, to me, of some medieval portraiture... a bit primitive. The mounting is also less than perfect with distortion from not being placed to best fit to anatomy.

Photographing it is also very difficult... it is up, behind the altar, and not well lighted. Given that the cloth is transparent, very diaphanous, getting a good picture in situ is almost impossible. The image is only viewable or photographical when the angle of incident light is just right. It does appear to be mysterious...