#theblessedvirgin

[pansamochodzik-blog1]

[anastpaul]

This is an image made by a forensic artist who said it is a, “tribute to one of my favourite painter William Bouguereau. This painting of Maria the virgin has been done in photoshop. The project was to paint an accurate face of Maria, matching the Christ’s face in the “Shroud of Turin.” In other words, it’s a “mash-up” between the Shroud of Turin and a Bouguereau painting of the Virgin.. Since the Lord was the biological son of the Theotokos alone, any physical features of his face would have come directly from her. His eyes would have been her eyes. His face would have been a masculine version of her face. This idea is intriguing. While the Church has never stated definitively that the face in the Shroud of Turin is that of Our Lord, many believe it to be so. Starting with that assumption, and now with modern forensics, we can work backwards, and speculate what his Mother might have looked like. Could this beautiful face be the face of the Virgin Mother?” And here it is… Stunning…