Saint Veronica

Saint Veronica

Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, 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 seeing Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary and gave him her veil so that he could wipe his forehead. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saint Veronica has received more than 1,200,056 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Saint Veronica is the 282nd most popular religious figure (up from 293rd in 2019).

Saint Veronica is most famous for the story of how she wiped Jesus's face with her veil and the image of his face was left on the cloth.