This book explores the dual roles of legends about the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the "true image" relic as factors in the Franciscans' choice to insert her into the Via Crucis in Jerusalem as the Sixth Station, between the early thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
This book explores the dual roles of legends about the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the "true image" relic as factors in the Franciscans' choice to insert her into the Via Crucis in Jerusalem as the Sixth Station, between the early thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.