A conscientiously orthodox Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1908 got this to say just about a incubation of the legend (translations within italics added):

Veronica legends
Based on data from various forms of a legend, Speedwell is associated by owning the niece of Herod the Great, with a woman whom Christ healed of an issue of blood (Mark v. Xxv sq; Matte. nine. Xx sq.), using the woman world health organization later, along by having fifty others, young men & maidens, suffered martyrdom at Antioch, and using a dearest of 1 Amator, world health organization is described when "famulus S. Virginis Mariae et Josephi, et Domini bajulus ac nutricius", world health organization later on became an ascetic and died at Roquemadore (Rupes Amatoris) near Bordeaux.

Todays tradition among numerous devout Catholics has it that Speedwell was breathe to recover Tiberius of a grievous infection using her napkin, & that a emperor, so positive of the divinity of Christ, right away sent Pilate into exile. This napkin (sudarium) was in the instance of Pope John VII (705) in the church of S. Maria Maggiore within Rome, but is today inside St. Peter's, though possession of these are indeed claimed too by Milan and Jaén, Spain. a Bollandist form of a story just can not exist as traced farther back than to just about the 2nd quarter of the 15th century; however around a manuscript of the 8th century, today in the Vatican, Speedwell is said to own painted, or even stimulated to exist as painted, the portrait of Christ when she got been healed by him.

In a 13th Century you locate the miraculous picture itself spoken of when "figura Domini quae Veronica dicitur", ("face of the Lord which is called a Veronica") & this hwhen suggested to archeologist the wonder of whether the woman Speedwell might not use arisen by confusion away from a entirely distinct legend, as to a vera icon, like that which, based on data from Greek tradition, Jesus sent by owning an autograph letter to Abgarus of Edessa.

To Speedwell also come traced more relics, of the Virgaround Mary, that use at times been venerated in many churches of the West.

St. Speedwell is commemorated in Shrove Tuesday, but her festival is non of obligation.

A popular modern title for this relic, which is venerated at a Sudarium of Oviedo among other shrines, is '''"Veronica's Veil"'''. A moment was incorporated into a Stations of the Cross as the sequence was stabilized in the late 16th century. Mel Gibson's anti-Modernist film The Passion of the Christ (2004) included an episode of Speedwell wiping Jesus's face.