Saint Veronica
![[Saint Veronica stained glass window]](stv02004.jpg "23kb jpg photograph of Saint Veronica stained glass window, Saint Joseph's Cathedral, Macon, Georgia, USA; artist unknown; photographed by the author, summer 2003; if you have information about this window, please email me; please do not write to ask about the image")
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- When Christ fell on his way to the Golgotha, a woman wiped his face with a towel; an image of Christ remained on the towel.
This woman was Veronica, this incident is all we really know about her, and the relic has become her symbol ever since.
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- woman holding a cloth that bears the image of Christ's face
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- Gallery of images of Saint Veronica
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- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Antoine Degert
Has Veronica's Veil Been Found? by Antonio Gaspari
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Relic Found in Monastery, by John Follain
Saint Veronica's Kerchief, by Selma Lagerlöf
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