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Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, [3] was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian traditions. [4] A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, [5] but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph Braun cited her commemoration in Festi Marianni on ...
The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand"). Various existing images have been claimed to ...
Veronica (variants in other languages: Veronika, Verónica, Verônica, Véronique, Weronika, Вероника) is a female given name, a Latin alteration of the ancient Macedonian name Berenice (Βερενίκη), [1] which in turn is derived from the Macedonian form of the Attic Greek Φερενίκη, Phereníkē, or Φερονίκη, Pheroníkē, from φέρειν, phérein, to bring, and ...
Matthew's and Luke's accounts specify the "fringe" of his cloak, using a Greek word which also appears in Mark 6. [8] According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on fringes in Scripture, the Pharisees (one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism) who were the progenitors of modern Rabbinic Judaism, were in the habit of wearing extra-long fringes or tassels (Matthew 23:5), [9] a reference to ...
Feb. 10—Veronica Krupnick can almost point to the day her life changed forever. She was 10, a few weeks from the end of fourth grade and about to be adopted by her latest foster parents. In one ...
Well, look no further than to his parents, Melvin Booker and Veronica Gutiérrez. Keep scrolling to learn how Devin Booker’s parents’ fateful decision played an integral role in their All-Star ...
The oldest and best known of these images was called the vera icon ('true image'), which in the popular imagination developed a story of a person "Veronica". [6] The story is not recorded in its present form until the Middle Ages. [7] According to tradition Veronica encountered Jesus along the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary. When she paused ...
A 68-year-old woman who police say was killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide is being mourned by her community for her generosity and kindness.