Catholic Connection – Nov. 20, 2024 – Hr 2

Segment 2 & 3 – Manoppello’s Holy Veil: Light of Faith for a New Jubilee
“For the first-ever Holy Year, which Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) introduced as a Christian jubilee for the year 1300, the most important destination for many pilgrims to Rome was not an audience with the Pope or even the tombs of the apostles, but a gossamer-thin veil purporting to show the face of Christ. …  In January 1208, a barefoot Pope Innocent III carried the Sudarium in its crystal reliquary from St. Peter’s Basilica to the nearby Hospital Santo Spirito in Sassia for the first time in Rome, thus making it known throughout the Catholic world. Since 1620, the same cloth has been venerated as the “Holy Face” (Volto Santo) in a Capuchin church on a hill outside Manoppello, two hours east of Rome, where on Sept. 1, 2006, Benedict XVI became the first pope to visit it in 400 years.”  Read more here from Paul Badde.

Paul Badde, born in 1948, is an historian and journalist. Since 2000 he has been an editor of the German newspaper Welt, first as the Jerusalem correspondent and now as The Vatican correspondent in Rome.  He is the author of several books, author of several books, including “The Holy Veil of Manoppello: The Human Face of God,” “The Face of God: The Rediscovery Of The True Face of Jesus,” and “Benedict Up Close: The Inside Story of Eight Dramatic Years.”