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newadvent.org/cathen/15362a.htmI do not believe the church would have entered this into a devotion such as this if it were untrue.
“To distinguish at Rome the oldest and best known of these images it was called vera icon (true image), which ordinary language soon made veronica…By degrees, popular imagination mistook this word for the name of a person and attached thereto several legends which vary according to the country…These pious traditions cannot be documented…the name has found no place in the Hieronymian Martyrology or the oldest historical Martyrologies, and St. Charles Borromeo excluded the Office of St. Veronica from the Milan Missal where it had been introduced.”