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My theory is that there is a human aureola.

From Time Magazine Archive

The arch encloses a medallion bust, the head of which is defaced, but which represented the Saviour, as is proved by the indication of a cross on the aureola.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

The sun flares up; its rays seem to envelop the sacrificial altar with a dazzling aureola; above, the birds are singing their morning symphony.

From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne

The rays quivered everywhere in the air, and the aureola filled the world.

From Psyche by Couperus, Louis

It is, therefore, perfectly right for the Church to surround Christ and Christianity with this divine aureola of reverence and wonder, not exaggerating it, but neither understating it.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman