July 12th St. Veronica, Who Was Healed By Our Lord
It happened near theSea of Galilee, on a mild summer afternoon when Our Lord was busy healing the sick and preaching the Holy Gospel.It happened when a woman of great faith detached herself from the crowd of onlookers who were following Christ and dared to approach him. Her name was Veronica, and she was struggling with a chronic health problem in which she hemorrhaged continually, leaving her weak and anemic and constantly ill. Hoping for relief from this life-threatening ailment, she was content to approach the Lord silently and merely touch the hem of his robe.
The story is beautifully told in the Gospel of St. Luke, as follows:
Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and http://almoutran.com/2011/07/3757
