Saint Veronica. Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a woman of Jerusalem in the first century of the Common Era according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition.
A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph Braun cited her commemoration in Festi Marianni on 13 January. According to Church tradition, Veronica was moved with sympathy when she saw Jesus carrying his cross to Golgotha and gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead.
Jesus accepted the offering, held it to his face, and then handed it back to her, the image of his face miraculously impressed upon it. This piece of cloth became known as the Veil of Veronica.The story of Veronica is celebrated in the sixth Station of the Cross in many Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Western Orthodox churches. There is no reference to the story of Veronica and her veil in the canonical gospels.
The closest is the miracle of the unnamed woman who was healed by touching the hem of Jesus's garment. The apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus gives her name as Berenike or Beronike.
The name Veronica is a Latinisation of this ancient Macedonian name. The story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Em
A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph Braun cited her commemoration in Festi Marianni on 13 January. According to Church tradition, Veronica was moved with sympathy when she saw Jesus carrying his cross to Golgotha and gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead.
Jesus accepted the offering, held it to his face, and then handed it back to her, the image of his face miraculously impressed upon it. This piece of cloth became known as the Veil of Veronica.The story of Veronica is celebrated in the sixth Station of the Cross in many Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Western Orthodox churches. There is no reference to the story of Veronica and her veil in the canonical gospels.
The closest is the miracle of the unnamed woman who was healed by touching the hem of Jesus's garment. The apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus gives her name as Berenike or Beronike.
The name Veronica is a Latinisation of this ancient Macedonian name. The story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Em
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