Key facts
- Born
- 1st century AD , Caesarea Philippi or Jerusalem , Judea
- Venerated in
- Catholic Church , Eastern Orthodox Church , Anglican Communion
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Feast
- July 12
- Attributes
- Cloth that bears the image of Christ's face
- Patronage
- images; laundry workers, pictures, photos, photographers, Santa Veronica, San Pablo City , Laguna province
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Berenice
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Caesarea Philippi
- Place of death
- Soulac-sur-Mer
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Hans Memling 026.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- canonization status
- saint
- Commons category
- Saint Veronica
- date of death
- 0001-00-00
- date of birth
- 0001-01-01
- iconographic symbol
- Veil of Veronica
- feast day
- July 12
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Encyclopedic overview
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian traditions. Apocryphal texts relate how 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.
The story of Veronica is celebrated in the sixth Station of the Cross in Anglican, Catholic, and Western Orthodox churches. 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 January 13.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint Veronica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.