Veil

Veronica. The young woman who reputedly made her way through the crowds lining the way to Calvary and wiped the face of Jesus with a cloth. Later, she found the facial image of the Nazarene embedded on it.
Traditional? Indeed. Devotional? Doubtless. But without foundation in Scripture.

Was there such a person? Unlikely. Her very name – True Image - Vera from the Latin, Icon from the Greek – suggests a fiction.
But popular devotion – and mankind’s basic urge to reach out to the Suffering Saviour, offer Him some gesture of solace, however inadequate, along the Via Crucis – ensures that the legend of Veronica lives on to this day.

So… I placed her in the context of a family unit in Jerusalem at that time, began to stir the ingredients!
Her mother, Ruth, a good living, hard working jewess.
Her father, Azarias, a cleric, legalist, member of the Sanhedrin.
Her brother, Misach, diabolically possessed, who speaks not a coherent word right the way through the drama until the climax.
Her suitor, Benjamin, an impulsive young man with leanings towards the Zealots.
Sadoc, another member of the Sanhedrin who seeks to manipulate Azarias at an opportune moment…