Saint Veronica , 12th July

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St Veronica

Celebrated on July 12th

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Traditionally, St Veronica was a woman of Jerusalem who was so filled with compassion when she saw Jesus carrying his cross on the way to Golgotha, that she wiped his face with her veil. Legends say an image of his face was left on the cloth.

There are many stories about St Veronica. One associates her as the woman suffering from an issue of blood who Jesus healed. Another claims she was Martha, sister of Lazarus. One story described her as the wife of Zacchaeus, or of a Roman officer. Most accounts originate several hundred years after the time in which she is meant to have lived. Veronica means ‘true image’ .

A cloth said to be the Veil of Veronica has been kept at St Peter’s in Rome since the eighth century.

St Veronica is a patron saint of photographers, pictures and laundry workers.
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It is also the feast day of St. John Gualbert, the Roman soldier martyrs Sts. Nabor and Felix, and Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese.

St. Veronica, St. John Gualbert, St. Nabor, St. Felix, St. Zelie and St. Louis Martin, pray for us.

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Who Is St. Therese

Who is St. Therese of Lisieux? Learn the story Therese Martin and how she became a saint and doctor of the church.
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A cloth said to be the Veil of Veronica has been kept at St Peter’s in Rome since the eighth century.

St Veronica is a patron saint of photographers, pictures and laundry workers.
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Many of those of us who launder altar linens are aware that everything we touch is as wondrous as Veronica’s veil.

On that note, a friend of mine observed that if we kept that in mind, we would never wear lipstick, Chapstick or anything of that nature on a day when we were to recieve the Precious Blood, as it is unfitting to leave lipstick or grease or anything of that nature on any of the sacred vessels of the altar, nor on the linens. (For practical reasons, that 24-hour lipstick is the worst! ☹️ )
 
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In the year 944 AD the Image of Edessa entered Constantinople. The Orthodox Christians were great makers of holy icons. A very special kind of icon was a “true icon” or “vera iconica,” and in order to make such an item, the iconographer would actually have to observe the original holy scene. Obviously, no “true icon” could be made of biblical scenes, but such was possible for the face of Jesus found on the Image of Edessa.
Many icons of Jesus were made from the observation of His miraculous image on the Mandylion (as the Image of Edessa came to be known.) Some of these were painted on cloth and made their way to Italy. Since they had been painted by direct observation of the miraculous image of Jesus, they were termed “true images” or “vera iconica.”

One of the curious things about the Image of Edessa is that it was not publicly represented as a bloody burial sheet. In ancient times touching or even viewing such a thing would render a person “unclean” or spiritually polluted. Various stories were invented in attempts to explain how Jesus’ miraculous image came to be on a cloth, and most of these were unsatisfactory in that they failed to explain His obvious facial bruising. The Byzantines seem to have finally hit upon a satisfactory story: A woman wiped the face of Jesus with a cloth as He carried His cross, and His image was left on that cloth. My evidence for this story having originated in the East is my Orthodox icon of the Mandylion which also depicts its history in three small circles.* One of these shows the disciple Thaddeus presenting the Image to King Abgar V; a second shows the sacred cloth in its hiding place in the West Gate of Edessa; and the third shows the legend of the Image’s origin: a woman is holding a cloth up to Jesus’ face as He carries His cross.

When icons of the Mandylion were exported to the West, the story of the woman wiping Jesus’ face came with them. These icons were, as I have said, “vera iconica.” That term was subsequently conflated to “Veronica” and was given as a name to the woman who had purportedly wiped Jesus’ face.

Wilson reports that a number of these “vera iconicas” arrived in the West, and that the Vatican had to intervene in order to select the “real” one.**

I in no way mean to disparage Station Six. While its represented story may only be a legend, behind that legend is the most awesome and amazing truth: the Sacred Image of our Lord Jesus Christ that He left on His burial cloth: the Shroud of Turin.***

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...BAgDEAE&biw=1280&bih=881#imgrc=qrEIgdbg64GeUM:

**HOLY FACES, SECRET PLACES, Wilson, 1991

***The Shroud of Turin: Tetradiplon and the Shroud of Turin
 
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Thank you for posting this. St Veronica is one of my favourite saints.
 
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