acheiropoeta

Updated: May 10, 2025

Unlike most of her kind, she was not painted by Saint Luke. She is acheiropoeta not painted by any human hands whatever, and in so far resembles a certain old image of the Magna Mater, her prototype, which was also of divine origin. It is generally supposed that this picture is painted on wood. Not so, says Diehl; it is a fragment of a fresco on stone.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria