{"id":50985,"date":"2025-07-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=50985"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:33:32","slug":"saint-veronica-woman-who-wiped-the-face-of-jesus-with-her-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/santa-veronica-mujer-que-limpio-con-su-velo-el-rostro-de-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Veronica, woman who wiped the face of Jesus with her veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to tradition, Saint Veronica was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/60672\/hoy-es-la-fiesta-de-santa-veronica-a-cuyo-velo-se-le-impregno-el-rostro-de-cristo\">pious woman<\/a> who lived in Jerusalem. She was moved by the pains of Christ on his way to Calvary, and came to wipe away the sweat and blood that covered his face. According to tradition, she used her head veil for this purpose, on which was 'imprinted' with blood the face of Jesus, the Holy Face.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Passion of the Lord, Saint Veronica went to Rome carrying with her the veil with the 'Holy Face'. This veil would have been exposed for public veneration, and was permeating the faith of the people. Her action was reflected in the sixth station of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/actualidad\/la-historia-del-via-crucis-del-coliseo-romano\/\">Stations of the Cross<\/a>which is read on Good Friday in the Roman Colosseum. This station is usually entitled: 'A pious woman wipes the face of Jesus'.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Veronica's veil<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been praised <a href=\"https:\/\/es.catholic.net\/op\/articulos\/34832\/vernica-santa.html\">the courage<\/a> of St. Veronica, for her act of love could have caused her danger from the Romans or the people. But she was moved and made her way through the crowd. Despite the saint's popularity, her name is not found in the current Roman Martyrology. Nor was it in the previous one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The veil of Veronica has attracted numerous pilgrims to Rome. It seems to have been moved over the centuries and had been lost track of. However, in 1999, the German Jesuit Heinnrich Pfeiffer, professor of Art History at the Gregorian University (died in 2001), <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Faz_de_Manoppello\">announced<\/a> who had found it. The place was the Sanctuary of the Friars Minor Capuchin in Manoppello (Italy). Pope Benedict XVI visited this shrine in 2006.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seg\u00fan la tradici\u00f3n, Santa Ver\u00f3nica fue una mujer piadosa que viv\u00eda en Jerusal\u00e9n. Qued\u00f3 conmovida por los dolores de Cristo en su camino al Calvario, y se acerc\u00f3 a enjugar el sudor y la sangre que cubr\u00edan su rostro. De acuerdo a la tradici\u00f3n, ella utiliz\u00f3 el velo de su cabeza para este prop\u00f3sito, en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":50989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[2285],"class_list":["post-50985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-santa-veronica","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}