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Saint Veronica

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Also known as Berenice, St. Veronica

Christian saint

Person · Open Library

Born
1660
Died
1727
Works
6

Top works

  • Il diario, a cura di Teresa Carloni
  • Diario di S. Veronica Giuliani
  • Il purgatorio d'amore
  • The lives of St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Francis de Girolamo, St. John Joseph of the cross, St. Pacificus of San Severino, and St. Veronica Guiliani
  • Experiencia y doctrina mistica

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Germany
Active from
1951-07-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
31

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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

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Commons category
Saint Veronica
date of death
0001-00-00
date of birth
0001-01-01
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Article

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.

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