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 ...

On Sunday, April 6, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica will display the revered “Veronica’s Veil,” a cloth that, according to tradition, was used to wipe the face of Jesus on his way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

In 1643, Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita, an astronomer and friar of the Catholic Church’s Capuchin Order, detected through his binocular telescope a stellar grouping resembling the sacred Sudarium ...

The Holy Face of Manoppello is pictured on display at the shrine in Manoppello, Italy, Jan. 11. Devotees believe that the almost transparent cloth was one of the burial shrouds that covered the face ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up until the mid-1600s, Rembrandt and others were encouraged to depend on four highly venerated religious relics for their inspiration. Three of them bear what was regarded as the true likeness of ...