Electromagnetman

The Veil of Manopello in Abruzzo Italy. Is this the Veil of Veronica or the Face Cloth under the Shoud of Turin in which Jesus was buried?
His face looks pained. If you lay the image against the Shroud Holy Face it is said that the dimensions fit- in other words the space from nose to eye and between eyes seem to fit-all the dimensions match up. There also seem to be blood spotching consistent one with the other (check for me).
The hair looks like the Roman guards grabbed his longer hair in a fist in the back of his head and took a swift violent knife haircut to it as it looks straggled and unevenly cut at the bottom. They could have done this as they mockingly plopped a crown of thorns around his head. (Guards would do this the same way we shave heads here when people go to prison-and Jesus was flogged mercilessly to near death before being strung up on the cross.) It looks like they also yanked out part of his beard. What has been called a 'tuft' of hair on the top is more likely a blood splotch from the crown of thorns which has bled into the particular weave of fibre in a fashion that makes it look like hair.
This is on a fabric made from woven mollusk fibres- the sinewy stuff holding in the muscles you don't eat. It was a fine expensive fabric used in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.
Around his mouth looks like blood which bled into the fibres in a whiskery appearance-
The bible described Jesus as "comely" -basically not someone that you would put on the cover of the Jerusalem Vogue. Were he stunningly georgeous he would not only have a woman problem but the men would be jealous and likely kill him off before he accomplished his mission.
Miracles and Georgeous? That would be too much. Here he looks like someone who would not attract attention for his looks. He looks "comely." You don't want someone distractingly good looking- You want someone supernaturally kind looking, which he does even in death.

The history of such images on fabric are not new to the Catholic world. The Tilma of Guateloupe is a mysterious unexplained image of the Blessed Mother on a cape worn by a peasant who was collecting a mysterious patch of roses which he walked to the local Bishop to tell him that he saw a vision of the Blessed Mother. When he opened the Tilma cape an image of the Virgin appeared on the Cape.
The light phenomenon that occured when Jesus was resurrected was such that it could have transfigured images onto the burial face cloth and the shroud of Turin- which by even the most rigorous scientific explanation is apparently otherworldly.

Upon further reflection:
If one looks at the Shroud image, which is a reverse sort of photographic image, one sees that the trickle of blood is quite long from the center of the forehead. In the image above however it looks like it was just starting to bleed and bled through the fabric in a veiny manner suggestive of hair. This suggests that this might be an image that was transposed or transfigured on the way to death not after death- and is not part of the burial package. Also, his eyes are open here and don't appear to be on the Shroud while they could be as it is a negative photographic sort of image. His face looks decidedly swollen here- which would happen after being whacked around by the Roman guards who undoubtedly whacked him across the face (more than once.)
The swelling is not as evident in the Shroud picture. [Recall that he bled out his side both water and blood for a good while while hanging on the cross after being punctured by a sword which would decrease swelling.]
I thus vote for it being Veronica's veil. What do you think? Just some kind of whacky painting? They don't even think this type of fabric holds paint or dye, much less about 2,000 later. There is no other known painted image on this type of fabric this old. Wouldn't there be some library somewhere that had a stock and stash of famous artists who made paintings like this on this type of fabric if that was done? Or is there only one in the world? Why has the technique not been handed down or taught to anyone? Why has no one written down how to make the die that sticks to it archivally for thousands of years?

Saint Anthony of Padua
Messenger on line newspaper has a great write up on it:
www.saintanthonyofpadua.net/messaggero

(Saint Anthony of Padua is also a Franciscan as are the Capuccins who guard this holy face relic. You can support the Capuccins in America by going to http://www.padrepioshrine.com/ and/or attending the Mass of the Capuccin Friars of Saint John the Baptist in New York on Nov.23 and have dinner with the Capuccin Cardinal from Boston at the Affina Hotel. Call the Friary for more info at 212-564-9070)--the www.padrepioshrine.org site leads to a New Jersey site and there is another one in Barto, PA. The one you want is in Times Square, Manhattan, just behind Penn Station.