When we think of the Passion of our Lord or make the Stations of the Cross, one image that should come into our mind’s eye is the Sixth Station — St. Veronica wiping the face of Jesus to comfort him.

In her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, St. Thérèse of Lisieux described a scene in her childhood, when she was gazing from a window one afternoon and saw a man dressed like her father, Louis, ...