 In 1958 , Pope Pius XII declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday ( the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday ) for all Roman Catholics . The first medal of the Holy Face , produced by Sister Maria <unk> De Micheli , based on the image on the Shroud of Turin had been offered to Pius XII who approved the medal and the devotion based on it . The general devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus had been approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885 before the image on the Turin Shroud had been photographed . 
