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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forAchiropoetosLiterally " made without hands." An expression used of pictures of Christ and the Virgin, which were supposed to have been executed miraculously, without human hands. There is one of these at Rome in the church of St. John of Lateran. St. Luke and angels are reputed to have been the artists. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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