Was St. Veronica married to Zacchaeus?

Answer 1

No, Saint Veronica is an apocryphal saint who appears nowhere in the canonical scriptures. Her story arose in an early medieval story expanding on the brief passage in Luke 23:27-31, saying that certain women lamented as Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha. The medieval elaboration says that a woman offered a cloth to wipe the face of Jesus which then resulted in a portrait on the cloth (a reproduction of which is now kept as a relic in Saint Peter's basilica in Rome). Her name was given as Veronica (vera + ikon = "true image"), and she now has a place in the popular exercise of the Stations of the Cross.

It seems unlikely that the medieval authors, well known for their pious creativity, could have known something that the author of Luke did not know. It is even more unlikely that the woman's name happened to coincide with what she was famous for in this story - wiping Jesus' face and receiving a true image of his face. We can say with some certainty that St. Veronica never lived, in which case it is not possible to say she was married.

Answer 2

Zacchaeus was a chief tax-collector at Jericho, mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke. There is nothing in scripture nor tradition that names his wife, Saint Veronica was the apocryphal woman that wiped the face of Jesus on his journey to Calvary. We have little factual information available about her.

Answer 3

There is no historical evidence to suggest that St. Veronica was married to Zacchaeus. St. Veronica is known for wiping the face of Jesus on the road to Calvary, while Zacchaeus is a tax collector mentioned in The Bible whom Jesus meets in Jericho. The two individuals are from different stories in Christian tradition.

Answer 4

According to tradition yes she was, but nothing is really known for certain about her.