Saint Veronica
Christian saint
- Fame59.8
- Momentum2.0
- Israel rank#228
- Fame59.8
- Momentum2.0
- Israel rank#228
- Religious Figures rank#220
- Wikipedia18.3K
IsraelA 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.
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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 r…
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