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thumb|An 18th-century painting of God the Father painting the image of [[Our Lady of Guadalupe, an unusual Marian image]] ' are Christian icons that are said to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human. They are also called icons made without hands'. Invariably, these are images of Jesus or Mary, usually the Virgin and Child. In Eastern Orthodoxy, the most notable examples are the Mandylion, also known as the Image of Edessa, and the Hodegetria.

In Western Christianity, the most notable examples are the Shroud of Turin, Veil of Veronica, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the Manoppello Image. The term is often applied to the image's content, and thus used for what are known to be normal human copies of originals believed to have been miraculously created.