Saint of the Day for February 4
Saint of the Day
Saint Veronica
Christian saint
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian traditions. Apocryphal texts relate how Veronica was moved with sympathy seeing Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary and gave him her veil so that he could wipe his forehead. Jesus accepted the offer, and when he returned the veil the image of his face was miraculously captured on it. The resulting relic became known as the Veil of Veronica.
Other saints and blesseds of the day
- Joan of ValoisFrench queen who entered religious life, became a nun and later an abbess who founded the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary (canonized 1950)
- Rabanus Maurusarchbishop of Mainz and writer (d. 856)
- Isidore of Pelusiummonk
- Catherine of RicciItalian Dominican Tertiary Religious Sister
- Joseph of LeonessaItalian saint
- Gilbert of Sempringham11th-century founder of the Gilbertine Order
- Himerius of Bostopilgrim and martyr
Bible Verse of the Day
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
On February 4 the Church remembers several saints and blesseds. Every day of the year has its saints: browse them all in the saints calendar.