Veronica

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> ### Nicknames
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> "The Bleeding Woman", "The Woman with the Issue of Blood"
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> Parents
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> ### Affiliation
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> Jesus , Jairus, Yussif, Eden, Jesus's students
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> ### Occupation
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> Laundress
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> Biographical Information
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> ### Place of birth
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> Caesarea Philippi
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> ### Portrayed by
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> Zhaleh Vossough
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> "Clean Part I" "Clean Part II"
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> "Clean Part I"
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> *There's no cure by doctors, but maybe there is something I haven't tried yet.*
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**Veronica** is a Jewish woman in her late twenties/early thirties who's suffered a rare illness lasting 12 years.

## Biography

Hailing from Caesarea Philippi, Veronica suffers from a rare illness that’s made her menstruate continuously for twelve years, leaving her always ceremonially unclean, and thus ostracized by her family and law-abiding Jews. The doctors and healers she spent all her money on only made her condition worse.

At some point she meets Jesse, who is telling everyone about the Rabbi who miraculously healed his paralysis that had lasted 38 years. Gaining a new sense of hope, Veronica makes her way to Capernaum along with several other pilgrims planning to hear the Sermon on the Mount. For the next several weeks she waits , earning money as a laundress and managing to hide her condition.

While contaminated water has everyone trekking to a well far out of town, Veronica discovers a hidden spring unknown to even most locals. She meets Eden when the other woman is heading to the well and offers to do her laundry. Though politely declining, she treats Veronica with kindness despite her skittish and odd behavior, and Veronica shows her to the spring in gratitude.

Eden, who is recovering from a miscarriage, figures out her secret after seeing the many bloodstained articles in her laundry, though is shocked to hear it’s lasted twelve whole years. Her own recent trauma helps her empathize, but she doesn’t think to bring Veronica to Jesus, perhaps having come to believe women’s matters are not His problem to solve and adopting a somewhat bitter tone when the other woman brings up the recent sermon.

When Veronica returns a customer’s laundry , he sees blood on her ankle and publicly shames her for doing business while unclean, making her break down into tears as she tries to apologize for causing trouble.  Thaddeus and Nathanael happen upon her campsite, offering to bring her to their Rabbi. Though at first afraid of facing another charlatan healer, she changes her mind when she realizes He is the One she’s been looking for.

They eventually find Him and the others trying to make their way through a dense crowd on their way to Jairus’s house. Thaddeus and Nathanael are unable to get His attention and apologetically tell Veronica to try tomorrow. In a moment of faith and desperation she moves into the throng and manages to grasp a tzitzit hanging from Jesus’s tunic, knowing it will be enough to heal her.

Jesus halts as power goes out of Him, healing Veronica instantly. He asks to know who touched Him, and she confesses to doing so, tearfully stating it healed her malady. Touched, Jesus tells her it was her faith that healed her, rather than his garment, calling her “Daughter” and saying she has blessed Him. Before continuing the journey with Simon and the Sons of Thunder, He asks the rest of the Twelve and the women to stay with her so nobody will trouble her.

Veronica disposes of the menstrual rags and immerses herself in the Sea of Galilee, overjoyed to finally be clean after so long.