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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Veronica

25 BC - 1

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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 1,092,680 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Saint Veronicas by language

Over the past year Saint Veronica has had the most page views in the with 162,813 views, followed by Spanish (110,377), and French (34,516). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Croatian (309.37%), Belarusian (237.33%), and Persian (184.56%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Veronica ranks 282 out of 3,187. Before her are Pope Gelasius I, Pope Adrian III, Pope Benedict I, Judas Maccabeus, Brigham Young, and Philip Melanchthon. After her are Vincent de Paul, Saint Patrick, Pope Cornelius, Pope John XII, Zaynab bint Jahsh, and Pope Paschal II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 25 BC, Saint Veronica ranks 1. After her are Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Marcus Gavius Apicius, and Vonones II. Among people deceased in 1, Saint Veronica ranks 1. After her are Mary of Clopas, Tigranes IV, Domitilla the Elder, Cleomedes, Agrippa, Zenobia of Armenia, Artaxias II of Iberia, and Terentius Maximus.

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