Saint Veronica

Life

This is the woman with an issue of blood whom the Lord healed (Matthew 9:20). Out of gratitude to the Lord, her healer, Veronica ordered a statue of the Lord Jesus to be made, before which she prayed to God. According to tradition, this statue was preserved until the time of Emperor Julian the Apostate, who converted it into a statue of the idol Zeus. This is one of the rarest instances in which statues of saints were used in the Eastern Church. As is well known, this later became a general custom of the Western churches. Saint Veronica remained devoted to the faith of Christ until death and reposed peacefully.