Saint veronica biography for kids

According to the Bollandists (4th Feb.), Saint Veronica or Berenice was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus bore His cross to Golgotha[?], gave Him her kerchief that He might wipe the drops of agony from His brow.

The Lord accepted the offering and after using it handed it back to her, bearing the image of His face miraculously impressed upon it.

According to various forms of the legend, Veronica is associated with the niece of Herod the Great, with the woman whom Christ healed of an issue of blood (Mark v.

25 sq; Matt.

Catholic saint veronica biography

ix. 20 sq.), with a woman who afterwards, along with fifty others, young men and maidens, suffered martyrdom at Antioch, and with the beloved of one Amator, who is described as "famulus S. Virginis Mariae et Josephi, et Domini bajulus ac nutricius", who afterwards became an ascetic and died at Roquemadore (Rupes Amatoris) near Bordeaux.

Current tradition in the Roman Catholic Church has it that Veronica was able to h