Br ENRICO MAIORANO, ofm cap. Student Biblical Sciences and Archaeology - Jerusalem "Along the Via Dolorosa Jesus is followed by several women. Tradition identifies one of them, Veronica, the one who is said to have wiped Christ's suffering face with a cloth. And Christ's face would be imprinted forever on that cloth. The sixth station of the Way of the Cross recalls this episode". We continue to follow Jesus in the days of his Passion. At the sixth station along the Via Dolorosa, Brother Enrico Maiorano tells us about Veronica, the woman who tradition says wiped Jesus' face. Br ENRICO MAIORANO, ofm cap. Student Biblical Sciences and Archaeology - Jerusalem "Actually, this place would not be the place where Veronica wiped the suffering face of Jesus but her own home here in Jerusalem. It is a fifteenth-century pilgrim named Fabri who first identified this place and initiated this devotion. The figure of Veronica herself would not be so much to be associated with the Passion of Jesus, but rather to be linked to the figure of the bleeding woman. The woman who had been suffering from bleeding for several years and, by touching the flap of Jesus' cloak, was instantly healed. We can imagine that the face of Christ was imprinted forever in the memory of this woman. Later tradition adds that she herself wanted to have the face of Jesus portrayed on a canvas in order to venerate him". Br ENRICO MAIORANO, ofm cap. Student Biblical Sciences and Archaeology - Jerusalem "Over the centuries, the tradition has been enriched with other details: for example, it recounts that this cloth was brought to Rome and healed the Emperor Tiberius, who was seriously ill. From the Middle Ages came the story of Veronica as we know her today: she who wiped the face of Jesus during His ascent to Calvary." Br ENRICO MAIORANO, ofm cap. Student Biblical Sciences and Archaeology - Jerusalem "The episode of Veronica is not contained in the Gospels. It is the later tradition that tells us this story. An apocryphal text, the "Acts of Pilate", tells us about it. The name Veronica comes from Beronike, Berenice, that is Veronica. A name then erroneously associated with the meaning of "true icon", with reference to the face of Christ impressed on the linen cloth". Br ENRICO MAIORANO, ofm cap. Student Biblical Sciences and Archaeology - Jerusalem "Whether she is the bleeding woman of whom the Gospels narrate or the woman who during the Passion wiped Christ's suffering face, the beauty of this figure lies in her feelings: it remains as a testimony down the centuries of a woman who suffered, who dared, had courage and loved to the end." The next steps will take us directly to the top of Calvary, under the cross, along with Mary and the apostle John. We will get to know, in particular, one of the soldiers, whom tradition calls Longino.