Medieval Greek term: a- , privative prefix , sin , no , cheir cheirós , hand and poieo , do , create : not made by the human hand but miraculously , it is assumed that by the hand of God . It is also said Vera Icon (Latinization of eikon, image), non manefactum, acheropiite, achiropita, acheiropoieta, aquiropoeta. It is said of some images of Christ, the Virgin or the Saints with miraculous attributions, with some mystery about their origin and without an exhaustive scientific explanation as happens in the Shroud of Turin.
