For three days, Veronica’s Veil had been on display in St. Peter’s Basilica for the veneration of the faithful in reparation for what revolutionary men were doing to the Church. At the close of 1848, Pope Pius IX (now Blessed) had been exiled from Rome to Gaeta. From there His Holiness asked for this exposition of the Veil along with the Relic of the True Cross.

On the third day an unusual prodigy, lasting three hours before many witnesses, took place with regards to the Veil of the Holy Face, the impression of which had been so faint as to be scarcely visible. A detailed description of this “Epiphany” comes to us from the Chronology of Holy Face Devotion:

“Through another veil of silk which covers the true Relic of Veronica’s Veil, and absolutely prevents the features from being distinguished, the Divine Face appeared distinctly, as if living, and was illumined by a soft light; the features assumed a death-like hue, and the eyes, deep-sunken, wore an expression of great pain. … Many wept; all were impressed with a reverential awe. An apostolic notary was summoned; a certificate was drawn up attesting to the fact. A copy of it was sent to the Holy Father at Gaeta….”

After this miracle, the Vatican permitted that copies of the Holy Face be made on linen or silk and touched to Veronica’s Veil, the True Wood of the Cross, and the Lance that pierced Christ’s side. These were then stamped with a waxen seal and marked GRATIS, accompanied by certificates of authenticity verifying that the images had been touched to the blood of Christ through the three instruments of Our Lord’s Passion. In a relic class of their own, they are considered “Living Images of Jesus Christ,” marked “True Effigies of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The oldest known (1856) of these Veronicas – “true icons,” as they came to be called, is coming from Detroit, MI, to the Carmelite Monastery in Alexandria, SD (221 5th Street), to close the Novena of Holy Hours for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Brought by its custodian, Mary Mutti, the Veronica will be here Sunday evening, Nov. 23rd, and will be available for veneration through Nov. 28th. The holy hour starts each night at 7 p.m., Nov. 16–24.

Come pray for our departed loved ones, that they may one day behold the Face of God for all eternity, and also make reparation for the many ways in which the Face of Jesus is still outraged today by atheism, blasphemy of the Holy Name, profanation of Sundays and attacks against Holy Mother Church and Christ’s Vicar on earth.

The Miracle at the Vatican took place only six months after the death of the holy Carmelite (Tours, France), Sr. Mary of St. Peter, to whom Our Lord, in revealing devotion and reparation to His Holy Face, had said,
“Rejoice, My daughter, because the hour approaches when the most beautiful Work under the sun will be born.”

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