The pope chooses the image on the outside: under Pope Benedict XVI it is a modern depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus, with Mary and John to each side.

The general devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus had been approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885 before the image on the Turin Shroud had been photographed.

Inter Caetera of 1456 was in direct opposition, however, to the stance taken by Pope Eugene IV in the 1435 bull Sicut Dudum, where infidels were acknowledged to have been created in the image of God and having souls, which implied that no Christian had the right to take away their liberty.

An image of Pope Alexander I.

* The Battle of Ravenna is fought between the troops of Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, and a force of Italians, raised by Pope Gregory II in defence of image worship, which Leo had outlawed.

" We are therefore sorry that the use of the image of the Pope and the Imam has so offended the sentiments of the faithful.

In 2007, disappointed with the manner in which Pope Benedict XVI had been presenting himself to the media, Zeffirelli openly offered his services to the Pontiff as an image consultant.

The icon is Mexico ’ s most popular religious and cultural image, bearing the titles: the Queen of Mexico, and was once proclaimed Patroness of the Philippines ( but later revised ) by Pope Pius XI in 1935.

Pope Leo XIII granted new texts in 1891 and authorized coronation of the image in 1895.

The painting shows a cross between the Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II, and because of this, the album was banned in Poland, due to the some of the publics response and complaints to the image saying " Why did you insult the Pope ?!".

alt = Pope Urban II stands in the center image, far back in the church at the Council of Clermont.

On a visit to Constantinople in 536, Pope Agapetus was accused of being opposed to the veneration of the theotokos and to the portrayal of her image in churches.

( See image below of this tiara worn by Pope John XXIII.

The most famous occasion when the triple tiara was used was the papal coronation, a six-hour ceremony, when the new pope was carried in state on the sedia gestatoria ( portable throne-see image of Pope John XXIII, left ), with attendants fanning the pontiff with ostrich-feathered flabella to the location of the coronation.

* A religious image of the Virgin Mary from the 18th century is known in Uruguay as " Virgen de los Treinta y Tres " ( Virgin of the Thirty-Three ) consecrated by Pope John Paul II in his visit to Uruguay in 1988.

Although various devotions to the face of Jesus have been practiced, the term " Holy Face of Jesus " as used today only relates to the specific devotions approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1895 and Pope Pius XII in 1958 in regards to the image from the Shroud of Turin.

The Catholic Church has neither formally endorsed or rejected the shroud, but in 1958 Pope Pius XII approved of the image in association with the Roman Catholic devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.

The image at the Monastery of the Holy Face in Alicante, Spain was acquired by Pope Nicholas V from relatives of the Byzantine Emperor in 1453 and was given by a Vatican cardinal to a Spanish priest who took it to Alicante, in 1489.

Pope John Paul II used a slight variation of the reverse image as his coat of arms, a plain cross with an M in the lower right quadrant of the shield.

The Roman Catholic Church's attitude was expressed by Pope John Paul II in the image of the Church " breathing with her two lungs ".

The album cover was banned in Poland, due to the some of the public's response and complaints to the image saying " Why did you insult the Pope ?!".

Emmerich's extensive collection of artwork includes a painting of Jesus Christ wearing a Katharine Hamnett-styled t-shirt during his crucifixion, prints of Alison Jackson's works of a Princess Diana lookalike making obscene gestures and engaging in sex acts, a wax sculpture of Pope John Paul II laughing as he reads his own obituary, and a Photoshopped image of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a homoerotic pose.

A 6th-century image of Augustine of Hippo | Saint Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

* Saint Piran ' rediscovered ' tin-smelting ( tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans ' arrival, but the methods had since been lost ) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross ( thus the image on the flag ).

It is thus designated in several medieval texts mentioned by the Bollandists ( e. g. an old Missal of Augsburg has a Mass " De S. Veronica seu Vultus Domini ") of (" Saint Veronica, or the Face of the Lord "), and Matthew of Westminster speaks of the imprint of the image of the Savior which is called Veronica: " Effigies Domenici vultus quae Veronica nuncupatur " (" effigy of the face of the Lord which is called a Veronica ").

Gold coin ofSigismund of Hungary with his coat of arms ( right ), and the image of the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary ( left ).

It was not until the ninth century after, that one of his humble followers, Saint Theodore of Studium ( Constantinople ), ventured to put forth the command " Thou shalt possess no slave, neither for domestic service nor for the labor of the fields, for man is made in the image of God.

Satellite image of Île d ' Orléans in the Saint Lawrence River

Icon of Abgar holding the mandylion, the image of Christ ( encaustic painting | encaustic, 10th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

A well known example is the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is reported to have been miraculously imprinted on the cloak of Saint Juan Diego.

In the 9th century Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick the deity is called Cenn Cruach, and his cult image consists of a central figure covered with gold and silver, surrounded by twelve bronze figures.

This text inculcated in Westerners an image of " India " as a place of exotic wonders and offered the earliest description of Saint Thomas establishing a Christian sect there ( the Saint Thomas Christians ), motifs that loomed large over later accounts of Prester John.

File: HeiligenstadtSanktVeit. JPG | An image of Saint Vitus in Heiligenstadt, Franconia

Icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and angels, and the Hand of God ( art ) | Hand of God above, 6th century, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, perhaps the earliest iconic image of the subject to survive.

Use of a simplified symbol associated with Saint Andrew which does not depict his image, namely the saltire, or crux decussata, ( from the Latin crux, ' cross ', and decussis, ' having the shape of the Roman numeral X '), has its origins in the late 14th century ; the Parliament of Scotland having decreed in 1385 that Scottish soldiers shall wear a white Saint Andrew's Cross on their person, both in front and behind, for the purpose of identification.

On 22 May 1538, at the insistence of Cromwell, he preached the final sermon before Franciscan Friar John Forest was burnt at the stake, in a fire said to have been fueled partly by a Welsh image of Saint Derfel.

Other hardware components were supplied as follows: the beam-combining mirror from REOSC at Saint Pierre du Perray ; the spherical, folding and relay mirrors from Carl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen ; the external straylight baffles from CASA in Madrid ; the modulating grid from CSEM in Neuchatel ; the mechanism control system and the thermal control electronics from Dornier Satellite Systems in Friedrichshafen ; optical filters, the experiment structures and the attitude and orbit control system from Matra Marconi Space in Velizy ; instrument switching mechanisms from Oerlikon-Contraves in Zurich ; the image dissector tube and photomultiplier detectors assembled by the Dutch Space Research Organisation, SRON in The Netherlands ; the refocusing assembly mechanism designed by TNO-TPD in Delft ; the electrical power subsystem from British Aerospace in Bristol ; the structure and reaction control system from Daimler-Benz Aerospace in Bremen ; the solar arrays and thermal control system from Fokker Space System in Leiden ; the data handling and telecommunications system from Saab Ericsson Space in Gothenburg ; and the apogee boost motor from SEP in France.

An image of Saint Christopher, such as is worn or is placed in a vehicle, for protection on long journeys

" Medieval artists used the Greco-Roman image of Bellerophon and the Chimaera as the template for representations of Saint George and the Dragon.

The construction of the Nativity scene by Saint Francis of Assisi was instrumental in portraying a softer image of Jesus that contrasted with the powerful and radiant image at the Transfiguration, and emphasized how God had taken a humble path to his own birth.

Banknotes in these areas are issued by the Saint Helena Government and bear the image of the British monarch.

The Serb rebels bore flags with the image of Saint Sava, thus the rebellion had a character of a holy war.