Saint Veronica
Christian saint · Israel · Religious Figures · Lived 1 to 1 · aged 0
Saint Veronica is read about 520 times a day, in 44 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
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Jerusalem (The Sixth Station of Jesus on Via Dolorosa)(Sainte Veronique); 1-3000-308
Old Jerusalem Sixth Station Eglise Visage du Christ
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Saint Veronica (sixth) station 1923 (511144145)
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Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, 04About this person
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.
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