Editing Image of Edessa (section)

==Veil of Veronica==
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[[File:Hans Memling 026.jpg|thumb|Veronica holding her veil, [[Hans Memling]], c. 1470]]

Historian Rebecca Rist says that devotion to [[Saint Veronica]] was encouraged by [[Pope Innocent III]] in part to compete with Constantinople's Mandylion and increase the prestige of Rome and its pope by claiming a similar acheiropoieta, the [[Veil of Veronica]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Rist | first=Rebecca | chapter=Innocent III and the Roman Veronica: Papal PR or Eucharistic icon? | language=en | pages=114-125 | doi=10.1484/m.convisup-eb.5.131046 | hdl=11222.digilib/137738 | editor-last=Murphy | editor-first=Amanda Clare | editor-last2=Kessler | editor-first2=Herbert L. | editor-last3=Petoletti | editor-first3=Marco | editor-last4=Duffy | editor-first4=Eamon | editor-last5=Milanese | editor-first5=Guido | title=The European fortune of the Roman Veronica in the middle ages | series=Convivium Supplementum | publisher=Brepols | publication-place=Turnhout, Belgium | date=2017 | isbn=978-80-210-8779-8 | oclc=1021182894}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Nicolotti | first=Andrea | title=The European Fortune of the Roman Veronica in the Middle Ages | type=Book review | work=Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture | volume=7 | number=1 | date=2019 | pages=162-173, at p. 167 | url=https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol7/iss1/9}}</ref>

In later Western European tradition the main likeness of the face of Jesus not made by human hand (i.e., an [[Acheiropoieta|acheiropoieton]]), became the Veil of Veronica, supposedly the cloth offered by Saint Veronica to Jesus so he could wipe his face on the way to his crucifixion. That the name "Veronica" may derive from "true image" (alternatively ''pherenike'' ("bearer of blessing" in Greek), and the late appearance of this legend, has increased the scepticism of scholars.<ref>Hall, 321</ref>  A cloth believed to exist today in the Vatican is supposed to have been brought back to Italy at the time of the [[Crusades]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Peter's - St Veronica Statue |url=https://stpetersbasilica.info/Statues/StVeronica/StVeronica.htm |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=stpetersbasilica.info}}</ref> The Veil of Veronica ({{langx|la|Sudarium}}, 'sweat-cloth'), often called simply "The Veronica" and known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face (but not to be confused with the carved crucifix the [[Volto Santo of Lucca]]), is a Christian relic of a piece of cloth which, according to tradition, bears the image of Jesus' face. Various existing images have been claimed to be the "original" relic, or early copies of it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Joan E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5g8DwAAQBAJ&q=veil+if+veronica+Various+existing+images+have+been+claimed+to+be+the+%22original%22+relic,+or+early+copies+of+it |title=What Did Jesus Look Like? |date=2018-02-08 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-567-67151-6 |language=en}}</ref>

Accounts of the Veil of Veronica and the Image of Edessa are sometimes confused by scholars.{{sfn|Nicolotti|2019|p=171}}