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Veronica is a female given name, the Latin transliteration of the Greek name Berenice, Βερενίκη .[1] This was the Veronica Macedonian form of the Athenian Φερενίκη , Phereník ē, or Φερονίκη , Pheroník ē, from φέρειν , phérein , to bring, and Pronunciation /vəˈrɒnɨkə/ νίκη , níkê , "victory", i.e. "she who brings victory". [2][3] The Spanish: [be ˈɾ onika] Ancient Macedonian form of the name was popularized Gender Female because of its extensive use as a royal feminine name by the Origin reigning dynasties of the states of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great throughout the Eastern Mediterranean during the Word/name Greek Hellenistic age, most notably by the Ptolemies of Egypt and Meaning she who brings victory by the Seleucids of Asia. In medieval etymology, Veronica was sometimes wrongly supposed to derive from Latin vera Other names [4] (true) and Greek eikon (image). Its popularity in medieval Related names Bernice, Berenice and modern times is based mainly on the importance in Christianity of Veronica and her . Pet Look up Veronica in forms of Veronica include Ronnie and Roni and the German Frony. Wiktionary, the free dictionary. List of persons with the given name Veronica

Saint Veronica Veronica (singer), American dance music singer Veronica Ballestrini, American singer Veronica Belmont, Internet TV and webcasting host Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican track and field sprint athlete Veronica Carlson, English model and actress in Hammer horror films. Veronica Cartwright, American actress Verónica Castro, Mexican actress Veronica De La Cruz, CNN News anchor Veronica Ferres, German actress Veronica Finn, former pop singer Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice Veronica Guerin, murdered Irish journalist , Italian mystic Veronica Lake, American film actress Veronica Maggio, Swedish pop singer Veronica Mehta, British Asian singer Verónica Orozco, Colombian actress and singer Verónica Páez, Argentine marathon runner Veronica Perez, Mexican footballer Veronica Rayne, American pornographic actress Verónica Ribot, Argentine diver Veronica Roth, American dystopian author Veronica Scopelliti, also known as Noemi, an Italian singer

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Veronica Scott, American fashion designer, Fuchsia CEO, television personality Veronica Taylor, American voice actress Veronica Vera, American sexuality writer and actress Veronica Varlow, American dancer and actress Verónica Villarroel, Chilean opera singer Veronica Williams, Australian football soccer player

In fiction

Veronica Lodge, rich teenage girl in the Archie Comics universe Veronica Mars , a television series starring Kristen Bell as the title character Veronica Ronnie Mitchell, a character from the television soap opera EastEnders Veronica Sawyer, played by Winona Ryder in the 1980s' teenage cult classic Heathers Veronica Reed, dominatrix mother of main character Marten Reed in the webcomic Questionable Content Veronica Madaraki, the surgically manufactured "sister" of the title character in the Franken Fran manga Veronica, protagonist of a 1989 Elvis Costello song, his highest-charting in the United States.[5] Veronica Parker, a character from the television series Mona the Vampire

References

1. Harper, Douglas (November 2001). "Veronica" (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Veronica). Online Etymology Dictionary . Retrieved 24 August 2007. 2. Names of Greek origin (http://www.cedarseed.com/air/greeknames.html) 3. Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Berenice (http://www.behindthename.com /name/berenice) 4. Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Veronica (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15362a.htm) 5. "Veronica" - Elvis Costello - Chart History (http://www.billboard.com/artist/301685/elvis+costello/chart). Billboard.com. Retrieved 27 September 2010.

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Βερενίκη

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Contents

1 Ancient Greek 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Alternative forms 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Proper noun 1.4.1 Inflection 1.4.2 Descendants

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See Φερενίκη (Phereník ē).

Alternative forms

Φερενίκη (Phereník ē) (Attic)

Pronunciation

(5th BC Attic ): IPA: /bereni íkɛ͜ ɛ/͜

(1st BC Egyptian ): IPA: /bɛrɛníːkeː/

(4th AD Koine ): IPA: /βereníki/

(10th AD Byzantine ): IPA: /vereníci/

(15th AD Constantinopolitan ): IPA: /veɾeníci/

Proper noun

Βερενίκη • (Bereník ē) ( genitive Βερενίκης ); f, first declension

1. Berenice

Inflection

First declension of Βερενίκη , Βερενίκης [show ▼]

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Descendants

Greek: Βερενίκη (Vereníki) Latin: Berenice Veronica (influenced by ecclesiastical Latin vera icon)

Language Berenice Veronica Basque Berenize Bulgarian Вероника (Veronika) Catalan Berenice Czech Berenika Veronika Dutch Berenice Veronica English Berenice; Bernice Veronica Estonian Berenike Veronika Finnish Berenike Veronika French Bérénice Véronique German Berenike Veronika Greek Βερενίκη (Vereníki) Βερονίκη (Veroníki) (Bereniqi) ברניקי Hebrew Hungarian Bereniké Veronika Italian Berenice Veronica Japanese ベレニケ (Berenike) Korean 베로니카 (Beronika) Latvian Veronika Lithuanian Veronika Norwegian Berenike Veronika Polish Berenika Weronika Portuguese Berenice Verônica Romanian Veronica Russian Вереника (Verenika) Вероника (Veronika) Slovenian Veronika Spanish Berenice Verónica Swedish Berenike Veronica Wolof Berenis

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For the Italian saint, see Veronica Giuliani. For the most ancient form of which goes back to the Billy Talent song, see Saint Veronika. For other uses fourth century. It is interesting to note that of saintly “Berenice”, see Berenice (disambiguation). the fanciful derivation of the name Veronica For other uses of saintly “Veronica”, see Veronica from the words Vera Icon (eikon) “true image” (disambiguation). dates back to the “Otia Imperialia” (iii 25) of Gervase of Tilbury (fl. 1211), who says: “Est (translated: Saint Veronica was a pious woman of in the ergo Veronica pictura Domini vera” first century AD, according to Christian tradition.[3] A “The Veronica is, therefore, a true picture of celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the the Lord.”) Acta Sanctorum published by the gave her Feast (under February 4),[4] but the Jesuit Scholar The Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1913 had this to say about Braun cited her commemoration in Festi Marianni on 13 the growth of the legend (translations in italics added):[8] January. According to Church tradition, Veronica was moved with The belief in the existence of authentic im- pity when she saw carrying his cross to Golgotha ages of Christ is connected with the old leg- and gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead. end of King Abgar of Edessa and the apoc- Jesus accepted the offering, held it to his face, and then ryphal writing known as the "Mors Pilati" (“the handed it back to her—the image of his face miraculously Death of Pilate"). To distinguish at Rome the impressed upon it. This piece of cloth became known as oldest and best known of these images it was the Veil of Veronica.[5][6][7] called the vera icon (true image), which in the common tongue soon became “Veronica.” It is The name “Veronica” itself is a Latinisation of Berenice thus designated in several medieval texts men- (Greek: Βερενίκη, Berenikē, with a secondary form tioned by the Bollandists (e.g. an old Missal Beronike), a Macedonian name, meaning “bearer of vic- of Augsburg has a Mass “De S. Veronica seu tory”. The woman who offered her veil to Jesus was Vultus Domini” - “Saint Veronica, or the Face known by this name in the Byzantine East, but in in the of the Lord”), and Matthew of Westminster Latin West the name took a life of its own. As proven speaks of the imprint of the image of the Savior by a medieval text, “Veronica” was used by the 13th cen- which is called Veronica: “Effigies Domenici tury as a designation for a relic venerated in Rome as the vultus quae Veronica nuncupatur” - “effigy of true image of Jesus. Since the Latin word for “true” or the face of the Lord which is called a Veron- “authentic” happens to be vera, the theory emerged that ica”. By degrees, popular imagination mistook the name itself is derived from the Latin phrase “true im- this word for the name of a person and attached age”, vera icon (one Latin word for image is icon, derived thereto several legends which vary according to from Greek: εικόνα, eikona). In the 13th-century text the country. and also in some later sources the term Veronica was used for the veil, not the person, but for centuries it has been better known as the name of the woman. The claim that The reference to Abgar is related to a similar legend in the name Veronica is derived from vera icon proved to the Eastern Church, the or Mandylion. be very persistent and we encounter it until today. The Encyclopædia Britannica says this about the legend: 1 Veronica legends Eusebius in his Historia Ecclesiastica (vii 18) tells how at lived the There is no reference to the story of St Veronica and her woman whom Christ healed of an issue of veil in the canonical . She is known as the woman blood (Matthew 9:20-22). Legend was not who wiped Jesus’s face with her veil. Then the image of long in providing the woman of the Jesus’s face appeared on it. The closest is the miracle with a name. In the West she was identified of the woman who was healed by touching the hem of with of Bethany; in the East she was Jesus’s garment (Luke 8:43–48); her name is later identi- called Berenike, or Beronike, the name appear- fied as Veronica by the apocryphal "Acts of Pilate". The ing in as early a work as the "Acta Pilati", the story was later elaborated in the 11th century by adding

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sentation of Jesus, preceding the .[8] Saint Veronica was mentioned in the reported visions of Jesus by Sister , a Carmelite nun who lived in , France, and started the devotion to the . In 1844, Sister Marie reported that in a vision, she saw Saint Veronica wiping away the spit and mud from the face of Jesus with her veil on the way to Calvary. She said that sacrilegious and blasphemous acts today are adding to the spit and mud that Saint Veronica wiped away that day. According to Sr Marie of St Peter, in her visions Jesus told her that he desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and . to Jesus Christ are thus compared to Saint Veronica wiping the face of Jesus.[12][13] The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus was eventually approved by Leo XIII in 1885. St Veronica is com- memorated on 12 July.

2 Veronica in popular culture

Statue of Saint Veronica by Francesco Mochi in a niche of the pier supporting the main dome of ’s Basilica.

that Christ gave her a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Emperor . The link- ing of this with the bearing of the cross in the Passion, and the miraculous appearance of the image only occurs around 1380, in the internationally popular book Medita- tions on the life of Christ.[9] The story of Veronica is cele- brated in the sixth Station of the Cross in many Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Western Orthodox churches.[3][10][11]

Statue of Veronica, used during the in Zejtun, .

Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ (2004) in- Albrecht Dürer's 1513 Veronica cluded an episode of Veronica wiping Jesus’s face, al- though she is not referred to by name in the film (she is According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the name credited in the film as “Seraphia”). Blessed Anne Cather- “Veronica” comes from the Latin vera, meaning “true” ine Emmerich, one of the inspirational sources to the or “Truthful”, and the Greek eikon, meaning “image"; cited movie, depicts a long and touching description of the Veil of Veronica was therefore largely regarded in the St Veronica episode and she identifies the true name medieval times as the “true image”, the truthful repre- of St Veronica also as “Seraphia.”[14] 3

The most common pass with the cape in bullfighting is 5 Churches and parishes named in called a “verónica”, as the torero holds the cape in the her honor same way as St.Veronica is usually depicted holding the cloth. • St Veronica Parish, Cincinnati, Ohio • St Veronica , Chantilly, Virginia 3 See also • Saint Veronica Congregation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Veronica’s Veil • “Saint Veronica Catholic Church”, Eastpointe, Michigan • Holy Face Scapular

• Relics attributed to Jesus 6 External links • List of names for the Biblical nameless

• Matthew 9 • Catholic Online - & Angels: St Veronica

• Mark 5

4 References

[1] Catholic Online

[2] Patron Saints Index: Saint Veronica

[3] “” (in English). UMC. 24 March 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2015. This tradition be- gan most prominently with St. (1182 – 1226) and spread to other churches in the medieval pe- riod. It is also observed by a growing number of Angli- cans, Methodists, and Lutherans. It is most commonly done during Lent, especially on Good Friday.

[4] Harper, Douglas (November 2001). “Veronica”. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-08-24.

[5] Notes and Queries, Volume 6 July–December 1852, Lon- don, page 252

[6] The Archaeological journal (UK), Volume 7, 1850 page 413

[7] Alban Butler, 2000 Lives of the Saints ISBN 0-86012- 256-5 page 84

[8] “St. Veronica”. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.

[9] Wilson, Ian (1991). Holy Faces, Secret Places. Garden City: Doubleday. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-385-26105-0.

[10] Vatican Website Sixth Station

[11] Religious Literacy (Stephen Prothero), HaperCollins Pub- lishers, page 284

[12] Dorothy Scallan, Emeric B Scallan, “The Life & Reve- lations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter,” 1994, ISBN 0-89555- 389-9

[13] Joan Carroll Cruz, OCDS. “Saintly Men of Modern Times,” 2003, ISBN 1-931709-77-7

[14] Emerich, Anne Catherine. Dolorious Passion. 4 7 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

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