HOLY FACE IMAGES


The Holy Face of Jesus from the image of Veronica's veil
(The veil is kept in St. Peters Basilica, Rome.)

Holy Face Images

For your convenience we have created this page to provide you with a variety of different images of the Holy Face of Jesus. Below we provide links to high resolution images of the 2nd class relic of the Holy Face that we own, and some images of other 2nd class relics from other visitors to our site. These are images of actual paintings that were created and touched to Veronica's veil in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (usually in the late 1800's).

These effigies/paintings are quite rare and the majority of the ones we have seen have the words, "VERA EFFIGIES SACRI VULTUS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI" (true image of the face of Our Lord Jesus Christ) followed by the words, "QUAE ROMAE IN SACROSANCTA BASILICA S.PETRI IN VATICANO RELIGIOSISSIME ASSERVATUR ET COLITUR" (venerated in Rome in the Most Holy Basilica of St. Peter). Most effigies/paintings seem to have a red wax seal in the corner as an indication they were touched to Veronica's veil, while some instead have a round stamp that contains the words, "SS. PATRIARCHALIS BASILICA VATICANA" which is obviously a stamp/seal from the Vatican. We are still researching the difference between the wax seal or stamp and will update this page as we find out more.

You may print any of these pictures to aid you in practicing the Holy Face Devotion, or you may otherwise distribute them freely. We recommend having the unframed image directly below printed on 11x17 glossy card stock at a local printer. It comes out beautiful and is the next best thing to owning your own 2nd class Holy Face relic.

Here are the links to high resolution framed and unframed photos of our 2nd class Holy Face relic. First click an image to make it large on your screen, then right click the larger image and select "Save Image As" to save it to your computer.

Here are links to some images of 2nd class Holy Face relics owned by other visitors to this website, or images of relics we otherwise located elsewhere.

In addition, here is a high resolution photo of the Holy Face picture we use throughout this website, which comes from the book on the life of Leo Dupont, "The Holy Man of Tours".

If you have an original 2nd class relic of the Holy Face and would like to share a photo of it for others to see on this page, please send us a message by clicking here, and if you are able, attach a high resolution photo of your relic to the message. Thank you!