The Veil of Veronica is supposedly the sacred cloth that St. Veronica had when she wiped Jesus Christ’s face on it as He walked to Calvary for His crucifixion. The Veil reportedly has been located at ...

The 6th-century apocryphal book Acts of Pilate speaks of a woman, known as Veronica, who wiped Christ’s face with a veil as he made his way to Golgatha to be executed. Sign up for our Christian ...

A woman playing Veronica wipes the face of the person playing Jesus at the Sixth Station of the Cross during the Good Friday Via Crucis procession down 18th Street in the Pilsen neighborhood on ...

The Sixth Station reflects the journey of Jesus when Veronica wipes his face. This Station is highlighting when Veronica stepped out courageously to help Jesus in this moment, a fearful thing to be a ...

Jesus is laid to rest in the tomb during the Way of the Cross at Dinajpur Cathedral in Bangladesh on April 18, 2025. (Piyas Biswas) This story appears in the Lent 2025 feature series.

Vatican City, 05 April, 2025 / 7:00 pm (ACI Africa). On Sunday, April 6, the fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica will display the revered “Veronica’s Veil,” a cloth that, according to tradition ...

On Sunday, April 6, the fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica will display the revered “Veronica’s Veil,” a cloth that, according to tradition, was used to wipe the face of Jesus on ...

These include the so-called Face of Veronica, believed to be the cloth with which a woman wiped Jesus' face on his way to Calvary, and fragments of the cross found by Saint Helena, mother of ...

Station VI: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, Bruce Onobrakpeya, linoleum block print on rice paper, 1969 High Museum of Art / National Museum of African Art. From medieval frescoes to ...