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See also:VERONICA, ST . According to the most See also:recent version of the See also:legend, Veronica was a pious woman of See also:Jerusalem, who, moved with pity by the spectacle of Jesus carrying His See also:cross to Golgotha, gave Him her kerchief in See also:order that He might wipe the drops of agony from His brow. The See also:Lord accepted the offering, and after using the napkin handed it back to her with the See also:image of His See also:face miraculously impressed upon it. This, however, is not the See also:primitive See also:form of the legend, which a See also:close examination shows to be derived from the following See also:story related by See also:Eusebius in his Historia Ecclesiastica (vii. 18). At Caesarea See also:Philippi dwelt the woman whom the Lord healed of an issue of See also:blood (Matt. ix. 20), and at the See also:door of her See also:house stood, on one See also:side a statue of a woman in an attitude of supplication, and on the other side that of a See also:man stretching forth his See also:hand to the woman. It was said that the male figure represented See also:Christ, and that the See also:group had been set up in recognition of the miraculous cure. Legend was not See also:long in providing the woman of the See also:Gospel with a name. In the See also:West she was identified with Martha of See also:Bethany; in the See also:East she was called Berenike, or Beronike, the name appearing in as See also:early a See also:work as the Ada Pilati, the most See also:ancient form of which goes back to the 4th See also:century. Towards the 6th century the legend of the woman with the issue of blood became merged in the legend of See also:Pilate, as is shown in the writings known in the See also:middle ages as Cura sanitatis Tiberii and Vindicta Salvatoris. According to the former of these accounts Veronica, in memory of her cure, caused a portrait of the Saviour to be painted. The See also:emperor Tiberius, when afflicted with a grievous sickness, commanded the woman to bring the portrait to him, worshipped Christ before her eyes, and was cured. The legend continued to gather accretions, and a miraculous origin came to be assigned to the image. It appears that in the 12th century the image began to be identified with one preserved at See also:Rome, and in the popular speech the image, too, was called Veronica. It is interesting to See also:note that the fanciful derivation of the same Veronica from the words See also:Vera See also:icon (eucdrv) " true image "—is not, as has been thought, of See also:modern origin, since it occurs in the Otia Imperialia (iii. 25) of Gervase of Tilbury (fl. 1211), who says: " Est ergo Veronica pictura Domini vera." In several churches the See also:office of St Veronica, matron, is observed on various See also:dates. See Acta Sanctorum, See also:February, i. 449-57; L. F. C. See also:Tischendorf, Evangelia apocrypha (2nd ed., See also:Leipzig, 1877), p. 239; E. von Dobschutz, Christusbilder (Leipzig, 1899); H. Thurston, The Stations of the Cross (See also:London, 1906). (H. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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