# Saint Veronica

> A first-century widow who, tradition says, stepped forward on the road to Calvary and offered Jesus her veil—then watched his face print itself onto the cloth. The relic became one of Christianity's most famous phantom artifacts.

*Christian saint*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/saint-veronica

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** Israel
- **Born:** 1
- **Died:** 1
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

The extra-biblical texts place Veronica in Jerusalem, a widow moved by the sight of a condemned man staggering under wood. She gave him her veil to wipe his forehead; he returned it bearing the miraculous imprint of his features. The cloth—the Veil of Veronica—became a relic pursued and venerated across centuries, though no canonical gospel mentions her. The sixth Station of the Cross memorializes the gesture in Anglican, Catholic, and Western Orthodox liturgy. The 17th-century Bollandists catalogued her feast under July 12; a German Jesuit scholar later noted a January 13 commemoration. She remains a figure suspended between piety and apocrypha, her story carried more by devotion than documentation.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 59.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 11.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #226
- **Category rank:** #218

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Religious Figure, #Religion, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Veronica)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196653)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Saint%20Veronica)
- [Santa Veronica](https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Veronica)
- [Святая Вераніка](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0)
- [Вероника (светица)](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0))
- [Verònica (santa)](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B2nica_(santa))
- [Svatá Veronika](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%A1_Veronika)
- [Verónica (santa)](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_(santa))
- [Veronika (santua)](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika_(santua))
- [ورونیکای قدیس](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%82%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B3)
- [Pyhä Veronica](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyh%C3%A4_Veronica)
- [Véronique (christianisme)](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_(christianisme))
- [Verónica](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica)
- [Saint Veronica](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Veronica)
- [ורוניקה הקדושה](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%94)
- [Sveta Veronika](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveta_Veronika)
- [Szent Veronika](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_Veronika)
- [Սուրբ Վերոնիկա](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%A2_%D5%8E%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%A1)
- [Veronika](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika)
- [Saint Veronica](https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Veronica)
- [Santa Veronica](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Veronica)
- [聖ヴェロニカ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AB)
- [Veronika](https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika)
- [წმინდა ვერონიკა](https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AC%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90_%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%90)
- [Wikiquote](https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/P%C3%BCha_Veronica)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Santa_Veronica)
- [القديسة فيرونيكا](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A9_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)
- [القديسة فيرونيكا](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A9_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)

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