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Saint Veronica holding up the cloth with the face of Christ, painted by Hans Memling about 1470

Saint Veronica

Said to have offered Christ a cloth that kept the image of his face

Western calendar
Not kept
Orthodox calendar
12 July, as the woman healed of a flow of blood (25 July on the old calendar)

Veronica is the name given to the woman who, tradition says, offered Christ a cloth on the way to Calvary, on which he left the image of his face. The Gospels do not tell of her, and the Catholic Encyclopedia explains that the name grew from vera icon, "true image", the name Rome gave to that likeness, before popular imagination took it for the name of a woman. The Orthodox give the name Veronica to the woman who had "suffered much under many physicians" and was healed by touching the Lord's garment, and they hold that she is not the Veronica of the cloth.

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