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Band of miscreants, I am not persuaded that the tiniest part of readers and writers of this blog has thought Veronica was celebrated today in the Catholic calendar. No doubt all become holy as it was, it did not come to think about when soft cloth to Christ on the rise of Golgotha that his actions long after, would be repeatedly copied and reinterpreted by means of a heavy cloak of yellow and pink percale. Indeed, at the time the colors were not very fashionable (what do I know? Nothing ...)

few minutes to browse on Wikipedia, I discovered that this name comes from Βερενίκη, Berenike, Macedonian word meaning "Bringing victory", Latinized as Veronica, and, like many other saints of our calendars, it is not mentioned in the canonical Gospels, but no matter because the story is pretty.

Naturally, the Middle Ages, fond of relics, has scattered right and left several veils of Veronica perfectly authentic. They are found today in St. Peter's in Rome (a massive statue of Veronica maintains one of the four columns of the choir), another at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris and not less than three in Spain [ Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen, (Jaén) , Monasterio de la Santa Faz (Alicante) and Ermita del Santo Rostro to Honrubia (Cuenca)]!

You already faint feeling of boredom, I leave you with the game of the evening: ¿Donde está Verónica? in this extraordinary painting by Hieronymus Bosch, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent.

For the most brave and tenacious, a few other versions of copyright-free or not. .. :

- that of Mattia Preti "he calabrese" preserved in Los Angeles here ;

- one of El Greco, Toledo kept at the Museum of Santa Cruz (logique. ..) here ;

- two versions of rodilla by Hans Memling, here (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), and Jacopo Pontormo, more dynamic, there (same stone to the Santa Maria Novella in Florence), and

- a section the Santo Rostro the cathedral of Jaén.

PS You will do me the pleasure of not confuse it with the photocopies of the Shroud of Turin is he, the shroud of Christ.