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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 sacred tradition. [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 ...
Dorothy Scallan, et al. 1994 The Life & Revelations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter ISBN 0-89555-389-9; Bernard Ruffin, 1999, The Shroud of Turin ISBN 0-87973-617-8; Céline Martin. My Sister Therese of the Holy Face. (1997) ISBN 0-89555-598-0; Veronica; or, The Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Holy Face of Jesus (or The Veil of Veronica) is a 1586–1595 painting by El Greco of the Holy Face of Jesus on a veil. It is now in the Museo del Prado , in Madrid , which acquired it in 1944 using funds from a legacy from the conde de Cartagena.
Veronica holding her veil, Hans Memling, c. 1470 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").
Saint Veronica and the Veil of Veronica miraculously imprinted with the face of Jesus. Hans Memling, about 1470 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). Vindicta Salvatoris (In English: The Avenging of the Saviour or The Vengeance of the Saviour) is a text of New Testament Apocrypha that expands the story of the aftermath of Jesus's execution.
The Philadelphia nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place on May 6—8 and July 6—7, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the adjacent districts of Kensington and Southwark.
There are a total of eighteen portraits, plus one on St. Veronica's veil. Both Jesus and St. Veronica have their eyes closed and hold a woeful expression with their heads inclining. [ 13 ] The depiction of Jesus is almost transparent, which makes the viewer wonder if he is to fade away, questioning if he is to last to the end. [ 14 ]
On November 28, 1843, Quarter was appointed the first Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Chicago, Illinois, by Pope Gregory XVI. [4] He received his episcopal consecration on March 10, 1844, from Bishop John Joseph Hughes, with Bishops Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J., and Richard Vincent Whelan serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral. [4]