# 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:** 58.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 5.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

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

## Sources
- [聖維羅尼卡](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E7%B6%AD%E7%BE%85%E5%B0%BC%E5%8D%A1)
- [Święta Weronika](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awi%C4%99ta_Weronika)
- [Veronica (heilige)](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(heilige))
- [Verônica de Jerusalém](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B4nica_de_Jerusal%C3%A9m)
- [Святая Вероника](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196653)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Veronica)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Saint%20Veronica)
- [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)
- [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))

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