Sudarium

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sudarium \Su*da"ri*um\, n. [L., a handkerchief.] (Eccl.)
     The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have
     impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face
     with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.
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