Veronica’s Veil, The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth).
As Jesus carried his cross, he paused and wiped his face on Veronica’s Veil, and His image was imprinted on it.
The sudarium and the veronica are two different cloths... The veronica comes from an entirely different tradition. The sudarium is supposedly the sweat cloth from the graveclothes. Veronica's veil is the cloth a woman used to help Jesus on the Via Delarosa when he slipped and she wiped his face with her veil. There are two known veronica's. One in the Vatican, and one in Manipolo... the one in Manipoli is on a very fine thin cloth called Byssus which comes from a sea urchin and can be seen from both sides but shows paint and is actually thought to be a self-portrait of Raphael ... the one in the Vatican is on Linen.
The name "Veronica" literally means "True Image"...
The sudarium and the veronica are two different cloths... The veronica comes from an entirely different tradition. The sudarium is supposedly the sweat cloth from the graveclothes. Veronica's veil is the cloth a woman used to help Jesus on the Via Delarosa when he slipped and she wiped his face with her veil. There are two known veronica's. One in the Vatican, and one in Manipolo... the one in Manipoli is on a very fine thin cloth called Byssus which comes from a sea urchin and can be seen from both sides but shows paint and is actually thought to be a self-portrait of Raphael ... the one in the Vatican is on Linen.
The name "Veronica" literally means "True Image"...