Saint Veronica
Also known as
- Berenice
Profile
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.
- against bleeding
- against hemorraghes
- domestic workers
- dying people
- laundry workers
- linen weavers
- maids
- parsonage housekeepers
- photographers
- rectory housekeepers
- seamstresses
- washerwomen
- woman holding a cloth that bears the image of Christ’s face
MLA Citation
- “Saint Veronica“. CatholicSaints.Info. 19 May 2017. Web. 28 May 2017. <>