A certain tale Evagr., Hist. iv., ch. 27., too, is told Procop., De Bellis, ii. ch. 12., how that when Augarus i.e. Abgarus. was king over the city of the Edessenes, he sent a portrait painter to paint a likeness of the Lord, and when the painter could not paint because of the brightness that shone from His countenance, the Lord Himself put a garment over His own divine and life-giving face and impressed on it an image of Himself and sent this to Augarus, to satisfy thus his desire.