The story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured Tiberius. The closest written reference is the miracle of Jesus healing the bleeding woman by touching the hem of Jesus' garment her name is later identified as Veronica by the apocryphal " Acts of Pilate". There is no reference to the story of Veronica and her veil in the canonical Gospels. Christ carrying the cross, attributed to Hieronymus Bosch in the lower-left corner: Veronica with the veil Evolution of the story 19th-century group of Saint Veronica offering Jesus the veil, from a series of Stations of the Cross. In the words of art historian Neil Macgregor, "From on, wherever the Roman Church went, the Veronica would go with it." The act of Saint Veronica wiping the face of Jesus with her veil is celebrated in the sixth Station of the Cross in many Anglican, Catholic, and Western Orthodox churches. The first written evidence of the story is from the Middle Ages, and during the 14th century, the veil became a central icon in the Western Church. The veil has been said to quench thirst, cure blindness, and even raise the dead. Veronica later traveled to Rome to present the cloth to the Roman Emperor Tiberius. The story of the image's origin is related to the sixth Station of the Cross, wherein Saint Veronica, encountering Jesus along the Via Dolorosa to Calvary, wipes the blood and sweat from his face with her veil. Various existing images have been claimed to be the original relic, as well as early copies of it representations of it are also known as vernicles. The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium ( Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand"). Veronica holding her veil, Hans Memling, c. For the image based on the Shroud of Turin, see Holy Face of Jesus. For the carving of Christ claimed to have been sculpted by Nicodemus, see Holy Face of Lucca.
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