Sentence:  A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (…) The only true <WSD>Veronica</WSD> of this century was the "veronica" of the matador – the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull's face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.