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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.

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against bleeding
• against hemorraghes
• domestic workers
• dying people
• laundry workers
• linen weavers
• maids
• parsonage housekeepers
• photographers
• rectory housekeepers
• seamstresses
• washerwomen

Representation

• woman holding a cloth that bears the image of Christ’s face

MLA Citation

• “Saint Veronica“. CatholicSaints.Info. 14 May 2016. Web. 1 October 2016. <>