page_title: Veil of Veronica
section_title: Holy Face of Genoa
hierarchical_section_title: Veil of Veronica / Similar images / Holy Face of Genoa
caption_attribution_description: Mandylion of Edessa from the private chapel of the pope in the Vatican Čeština: Údajný otisk tváře Ježíše Krista na plátně
context_page_description: The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium, also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic of a piece of cloth bearing a painting of a face. With no support from main-stream academic, scientific nor contemporary religious authority, claims have been made that the face is an image of Jesus that is not made by human hand. In Italian it is also known as the Volto Santo, or "Holy Face"—distinct from the Volto Santo of Lucca. Various existing images have been claimed to be the original relic, as well as early copies of it; representations of it are also known as vernicles. The original and copy images are described by the Vatican as laughably poor and wholly unconvincing frauds.
  The mythos associated with the veil recounts that Saint Veronica from Jerusalem encountered Jesus along the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary. When she paused to wipe the blood and sweat off his face with her veil, his image was imprinted on the cloth. The event, short of the imprinting on the cloth, is commemorated by the Sixth Station of the Cross. According to some versions, St.
context_section_description: Kept in the modest Church of St Bartholomew of The Armenians, Genoa, it was given in the 14th century to the Doge Leonardo Montaldo by the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaeologus.
  The image was studied in detail in 1969 by Colette Dufour Bozzo, who dated the outer frame to the late 14th century, while the inner frame and the image itself are believed to have originated earlier. Bozzo found that the image was imprinted on a cloth that had been pasted onto a wooden board. The similarity of the image with the Veil of Veronica suggests a link between the two traditions.
caption: The Holy Face of San Silvestro, now in the Matilda chapel in the Vatican.
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