[1st Century]. From antiquity this name has been associated with an image of Jesus and a woman who gave him succor on the way to his crucifixion. She is apt patron of those who minister to the suffering and dying. Her feast is July 12.
When Christ fell on his way to the Golgotha, a woman wiped his face with a towel; an image of Christ remained on the towel.
This woman was Veronica, this incident is all we really know about her, and the relic has become her symbol ever since.