You're listening to the SSPX Podcast. We're happy to present another installment of true heroes.

Stories of the Lives of the Saints, delivered by Father Thomas Tam. Father is also put together a video of each of these episodes. You can see the video at SSPX Podcast.com. Now here's Father Tam.

And a woman who was under an issue of blood 12 years when she had heard of Jesus came in the crowd behind him and touched his garment.

And he said to her,

Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace and be thou whole of thy disease.

Hello, my friends, and welcome to relics of Christendom slash True Heroes.

We are doing a kind of combined episode today.

We're going to look at the short history of St. Veronica and the veil with which she

wiped Christ's face during his passion.

Let us begin the story.

Saint Veronica is known as the woman who offered a cloth to Jesus so he could wipe his face

on the way to his crucifixion.

Legend states that as Christ was walking to Calvary, his face dripping with sweat and blood,

St. Veronica, a bystander, was moved with compassion.

She approached Jesus and offered him a cloth, likely her veil, which he accepted and used to wipe his face.

The image of his face was subsequently imprinted on the cloth.

A little side note here.

This episode of Veronica and our Lord is a tradition, right?

It's not in the Gospels.

So we're not quite sure that her name is in fact Veronica,

but rather that this name Veronica was given to her later

because of this incident.

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