In the Sixth Station of the Cross, a woman wipes the face of Jesus. A miracle ensues insofar as the cloth she uses receives the true image of Jesus’ face. She is appropriately called “Veronica,” which ...

Pope Benedict XVI made a private visit, today, to the popularly venerated Veil of Veronica. Veronica’s Veil is, according to tradition, a cloth used to wipe the sweat and blood from the face of Jesus ...

What if they cloned Jesus — would the same thing happen all over again? That was the idea I had when I began researching my first novel, “The Sixth Station,” out Tuesday. I began by exploring the ...

MANOPPELLO, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI on Friday prayed at a sanctuary in this village in central Italy that holds a veil some Christians believe was used to wipe blood and sweat from Jesus’ face on ...

Pope Benedict last week visited Veronica’s Veil, which some Christians say was used to wipe the blood and sweat off of Jesus’ face on his way to his crucifixion. It was a pope’s first visit to the ...

Despite various attempts over the centuries to give her a personal story, there is no evidence that she was a historical figure. She has never been included in any official list of Catholic saints; ...

The unique relationship between Jerusalem and Rome was evident on April 6 when the veil purportedly used by a Jerusalem matron to wipe the sweat and blood from Jesus’s face as he hauled his crucifix ...

It was a special evening at Guardian Angel Parish in Oran on Thursday, March 14. Friends of Father Joseph Kelly, Stan & Janet Schwent of Bloomsdale, brought the Holy Face of Jesus Relic to Oran for ...

If you were painting the face of Jesus in Rembrandt’s time — the 17th century — you had three sources to turn to: the Veil of Veronica, the Mandylion of Edessa and the Lentulus Letters. The two faint ...