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Edessa

Joanna Małocha Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.5 (Old Greek: ̕Ἔδεσσα, Syriac: Urhay)—a city in south-eastern Turkey; today (since 1984) it is known by its Turkish name Sanlıurfa (Glorious Urfa). Legend has it that Edessa is the first city to be founded after the biblical Flood, while Read more…

The Shroud in the Liturgies

Józef Naumowicz Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.12 The motif of the shroud, the linen in which the body of Jesus was wrapped before being laid in the tomb, appears in the Eucharist, which is called the Divine Liturgy, the Mass, etc., depending on the Christian denomination. This cloth Read more…

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