Veronica
Veronika with the handkerchief, painting by Hans Memling
Part of a votive panel with 16 legend scenes and saints, on the right is Veronika, Franconia, around 1500, Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
St. Veronica, Gothic sculpture, St. Lorenz (Nuremberg)
Veronika is a feminine given name .
Emergence
Veronika is derived from the Macedonian name Berenike (from the Greek pherenike ) and means victory bringer ( ancient Greek φέρειν phérein , German 'carry, bring' , νίκη níkē , German 'victory' ).
According to a legendary tradition that is related to the Passion story , and which is first handed down in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus , Veronica is a woman who wiped the sweat off Jesus on the Way of the Cross to Golgotha . An imprint of the face remained in the handkerchief (see Veronica's handkerchief ). In Byzantium , the same relic is known as the abgar cloth or mandylion . This relic disappeared at the time of the Latin Empire . At the same time, the famous Shroud of Turin first appeared in the West . According to folk etymology , the name was interpreted as a combination of the Latin vera (true) and the ancient Greek εικών eikōn (image, sign) as a “true image”.
Name days
- February 4th, memorial day of St. Veronica
- July 9, St. Veronica Giuliani
Well-known namesake
Veronica
- Veronica Avluv (* 1972), American porn actress
- Veronica Bennett (born 1943), American singer, known as Ronnie Spector
- Verónica Boquete (* 1987), Spanish soccer player
- Veronica Campbell-Brown (* 1982), Jamaican sprinter and Olympic champion
- Veronica Carstens (1923–2012), German physician
- Veronica Cartwright (born 1949), British actress
- Veronica Dunne (born 1995), American actress
- Veronica Escobar (* 1969), American politician
- Veronica Ferres (* 1965), German actress
- Veronica Guerin (1958-1996), Irish journalist
- Veronica Hart (* 1956), American actress and filmmaker
- Verónica Isbej (* 1976), Chilean biathlete
- Veronica Kaup-Hasler (* 1968), German-Austrian cultural and theater scholar, dramaturge, cultural manager and politician
- Veronica Lake (1922–1973), American actress
- Veronica Maggio (* 1981), Swedish singer
- Veronica Necula (* 1967), Romanian rower
- Veronica Perez (* 1988), Mexican-American soccer player
- Veronica Ricci (* 1988), American porn actress and actress
- Veronica Rodriguez (* 1991), Venezuelan porn actress
- Veronica Roth (* 1988), American writer
- Veronica Stallwood (* around 1939), English writer
- Veronica Tennant (* 1947), Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and film producer
- Veronica Webb (* 1965), American model, presenter, author and actress
Intermediate name
- Louise Veronica Ciccone (* 1958), American singer, actress, dancer and author, see Madonna (artist)
Veronica
- Veronica of Milan (≈1445–1497), nun of the convent; Venerated as blessed in the Catholic Church
- Veronika Albrecht-Birkner (* 1963), German Protestant theologian and university professor
- Veronika Bellmann (* 1960), German politician (CDU)
- Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen (* 1944), Austrian ethnologist and sociologist
- Veronika Bicker (* 1978), German writer
- Veronika Cvašková (* 1981), Slovak grass skier
- Veronika Dirnhofer (* 1967), Austrian artist (painting, ceramics, texts)
- Veronika Exler (* 1990), Austrian chess player
- Veronika Fischer (* 1951), German singer
- Veronika Fischer (1964–2012), German politician (CDU)
- Veronika Fitz (1936–2020), German folk actress
- Veronika Groiss (* 1977), Belarusian opera and concert singer (soprano)
- Veronika Hagen (* 1963), Austrian violist
- Veronika Harcsa (* 1982), Hungarian jazz singer and composer
- Veronika Ivanovskaia (* 1995), German pool player
- Veronika Jeníková (* 1964), Czech actress
- Veronika Kellndorfer (* 1962), German artist
- Veronika Kohlbach (1906–1996), Austrian athlete
- Veronika Lagun (* 1985), Lithuanian biathlete
- Veronika Meduna (* 1965), German-New Zealand biologist, radio journalist and writer
- Veronika Neugebauer (1968–2009), German voice actress
- Veronika Olma (* 1962), German visual artist with a focus on painting, drawing, photography and object art
- Veronika Polly (* 1974), Austrian actress
- Veronika von Quast (* 1946), Bavarian diseuse, actress, comedian and singer
- Veronika Rampold (* 1964), German physician and non-fiction author
- Veronika Sabolová (* 1980), Slovak luge athlete
- Veronika Šarec (* 1968), Slovenian ski racer
- Veronika Schäpers (* 1969), German bookbinder and book artist
- Veronika Schmidt (* 1952), German cross-country skier
- Veronika Schneider (* 1987), Hungarian chess player
- Veronika Skuplik (* 1964), German violinist and conductor in the field of historical performance practice
- Veronika Staber (* 1987), German ski racer
- Veronika Stoertzenbach (* 1958), German conductor and university music director
- Veronika Trisko (* 1981), Austrian pianist
- Veronika Vařeková (* 1977), Czech mannequin and photo model
- Veronika Veit (* 1968), German artist
- Veronika Velez-Zuzulová (* 1984), Slovak ski racer
- Veronika Vitzthum (* 1963), Austrian ski racer
- Veronika Wallinger (* 1966), Austrian ski racer
- Veronika Zemanová (* 1975), Czech erotic model
Weronika
- Weronika Deresz (* 1985), Polish lightweight rower
- Weronika Kapschaj (* 1986), Ukrainian tennis player
- Weronika Książkiewicz (* 1981), Polish actress
- Weronika Eduardowna Kudermetowa (* 1997), Russian tennis player
- Weronika Alexandrovna Marchenko (* 1969), Russian activist for the rights of survivors of the army
- Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak (* 1986), Polish biathlete
- Weronika Alexejewna Timofejewa (* 1982), Russian cross-country skier and biathlete
- Weronika Wedler (* 1989), Polish sprinter
variants
- Berenike (Macedonian, Hellenic)
- Pherenike (ancient Greek; old / original name form)
- Roni (German short form)
- Nika (short form)
- Ronja (Russian short form)
- Veronica (English, Italian, Romanian, Latinized; old / original name form)
- Veronika (German, Czech, Latvian, Hungarian, Slovak)
- Verónika (Icelandic)
- Véronique (French)
- Frona (Romansh)
- Vroni (South German short form)
- Weronika (Polish, Sorbian)
- Veronia (Egypt)
The name in literature, film and music
literature
- Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho
- Berenice (Poe) by Edgar Allan Poe
- In The Magpie on the Gallows (Сарока на шыбеніцы) by Alherd Bacharewitsch the main character is called Veronika (Вераніка). a. to Poe and Coelho.
- Little Veronica's three lights. Novel of a child's soul in this and that world by Manfred Kyber
- In The Golden Pot by ETA Hoffmann, a Veronika occurs.
- The handkerchief of Veronica by Gertrud von le Fort
- Veronika (1855) by Theodor Storm
Movie
- The Two Lives of Veronica by Krzysztof Kieślowski
- The longing of Veronika Voss by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Veronika decides to die by Emily Young
- Veronika (short film) by Mark Michel from 2011
Web links
Commons : Saint Veronica - collection of images, videos and audio files
