Back القديسة فيرونيكا Arabic القديسة فيرونيكا ARZ Santa Veronica BCL Святая Вераніка Byelorussian Вероника (светица) Bulgarian Verònica (santa) Catalan Svatá Veronika Czech Verónica (santa) Spanish Veronika (santua) Basque ورونیکای قدیس Persian
Saint Veronica | |
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 Saint Veronica, by Hans Memling, c. 1470. | |
| Born | 1st century AD Caesarea Philippi or Jerusalem, Judea |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Feast | July 12[1] |
| Attributes | Cloth that bears the image of Christ's face |
| Patronage | images; laundry workers, pictures, photos, photographers,[2] Santa Veronica, San Pablo City, Laguna |
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike,[3] was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition.[4] A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12,[5] 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 seeing Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary and gave him her veil so that he could wipe his forehead. Jesus accepted the offer, and when he returned the veil the image of his face was miraculously captured on it. The resulting relic became known as the Veil of Veronica.[6][7][8]
The story of Veronica is celebrated in the sixth Station of the Cross in Anglican, Catholic, and Western Orthodox churches.[4][9][10]
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