Feast of St Veronica. According to legend, she encountered Christ as he labored under the Cross on his way to Golgotha. Moved by compassion she wiped his face with her veil which later miraculously bore the features of his face.
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There is no indication she was a follower of Jesus—simply a woman who responded compassionately to a man in pain, a felon on his way to death. We need not have lived 2000 yrs ago to replicate her deed. Every person in need is an occasion: “Insofar as you did this to the least...”
