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[[image:Veronica.jpg|right|thumb|Saint Veronica, who wiped Christ's face as He went to his crucifixion.]]Saint '''Veronica''' (also ''Berenice'') is known as the woman who wiped [[Jesus Christ|Christ]]'s face as He carried His cross towards [[Golgotha]] and as the woman who whom Christ cured of the issue of blood, who is also traditionally identified as Herod the Great's niece. The Church celebrates her [[feast day]] on [[July 12]].
==Life==
No one is certain of what happened to Veronica in her later years, though one story has it that she cured the Roman Emperor Tiberius of some kind of sickness using her iconic cloth. Some sources say that she and her husband, named Zacchaeus, travelled all the way to Southern France confessing the [[Gospel]].
==Hymn==[[Troparion]] (Tone 8):The image of God was truly preserved in you, O Mother,:For you took up the Cross and followed Christ.:By so doing, you taught us to disregard the flesh, for it passes away,:But to care instead for the soul, since it is immortal.:Therefore your spirit, O Holy Mother Veronica, rejoices with the Angels!
==External links==
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=102006 Saint Veronica] ([[OCA]])
[[Category:Biblical Saints]]
[[Category:Saints]]
[[Category:1st-century saints]]
[[pt:Verônica de Jerusalém]]