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For the Italian saint, see Veronica Giuliani. For the Billy Talent song, see Saint Veronika. For the Syrian saint, see Febronia of Syria. Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a woman from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition. Saint Veronica and the Holy Women, Grégoire Guérard, c. 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 story of Veronica is celebrated in the sixth Station of the Cross in many Anglican, Catholic, and Western Orthodox churches. Statue of Veronica by Francesco Mochi in a niche of the pier supporting the main dome of St. Cloth of Saint Veronica, Bernardino Zaganelli, c. There is no reference to the story of Veronica and her veil in the canonical gospels. 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 Emperor Tiberius. At some point a relic became associated with the story.
Pedro Tafur, a Spanish knight visiting Rome in 1436, describes the following in the Church of St. On the right hand is a pillar as high as a small tower, and in it is the holy Veronica. When it is to be exhibited an opening is made in the roof of the church and a wooden chest or cradle is let down, in which are two clerics, and when they have descended, the chest or cradle is drawn up, and they, with the greatest reverence, take out the Veronica and show it to the people, who make concourse there upon the appointed day. However, he does not say specifically that he witnessed for himself this exhibition of the relic. Some academic sources suggest a different origin for the legend of St. The reference to Abgar is related to a similar legend in the Eastern Church, the Image of Edessa or Mandylion. The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus was eventually approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.
Veronica is commemorated on 12 July. She is also the patron saint of photographers, and laundry workers. Statue of Veronica, used during the Good Friday procession in Zejtun, Malta. In Volume 5 of her work, The Poem of the Man-God, Italian writer and alleged mystic Maria Valtorta depicts Veronica as Nike, who offered the linen cloth to Christ. It is also stated earlier in the same volume that “The one we call Veronica and whom Jesus called Nike” suggesting that Nike has been mistakenly referred to as Veronica throughout history.
Selma Lagerlöf in Christ Legends expands the legend by making Veronica a former servant of the Roman emperor Tiberius, named Faustina, who travels to Jerusalem in search of the Prophet of Nazareth, after learning that he once cured a young woman of leprosy. The most common pass with the cape in bullfighting is called a verónica, as the torero holds the cape in the same way as Veronica is usually depicted holding the cloth. The song “Climb” by Tori Amos on her 2017 album Native Invader contains repeated references to Veronica. This tradition began most prominently with St.
It is also observed by a growing number of Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans. It is most commonly done during Lent, especially on Good Friday. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t. Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures 1435-1439. New York: Henry Holt and Company. The Dolorous Passion Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From The Meditations Of Anne Catherine Emmerich. Come back and visit often, you never know what I’ve been up to or find rummaging through my memory boxes.