Saint Veronica
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Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian traditions. Apocryphal texts relate how Veronica was moved wit
Saint Veronica, by Hans Memling, c. 1470
Saint Veronica and the Holy Women, Grégoire Guérard, c.1530
Veil of Veronica (1923) by Olle Hjortzberg in Högalid Church (Evangelical-Lutheran) in Stockholm
Albrecht Dürer's 1513 Veronica
Holy Face of Jesus
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The Holy Face of Jesus is a title for specific images which some Catholics believe to be miraculously formed representations of the face of Jesus Christ. The image obtained from the Shroud of Turin is
Secondo Pia's 1898 negative of the image on the Shroud of Turin. Image from Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne.
Veronica's veil by Claude Mellan (c. 1649)
A reproduction or "engraving" of the Holy Face of Jesus associated with a miracle at St. Peter's Basilica on 6 January 1849.
On Good Friday, the Holy Face of Jesus is displayed at Engelbrekt Evangelical-Lutheran Church. The Church of Sweden priest wears a black stole, the liturgical colour of Good Friday in Evangelical-Lutheranism; the church is dimly lit and the altar has been stripped for this holy day (2025).