medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Veronica (?) Most likely a purely legendary figure, Veronica (whose name
> means "true image") is supposed to have wiped Christ's face as he went to
> be crucified---and his image remained miraculously imprinted on her cloth.
> The legend seems to have first appeared in the fourth century, originally
> with a miraculous picture of Christ that healed King Abgar of Edessa. By
> the sixth century the picture had become a cloth. At some point Veronica
> was linked to the woman suffering from a flow of blood, whom Jesus healed
> in the gospels.
>
A great amount of information in H.L. Kessler and G. Wolf (ed.) _The Holy
Face ant the Paradox of Representation_ Bologna, Nuova Alfa, 1998
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