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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...