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As He carried His Holy Cross, Our Lord was consoled by St. Veronica, who wiped His bloodied and beaten Face with her veil. The relic of her veil, with the Holy Face miraculously imprinted upon it, has been venerated ever since. In the 19th century, Sister Marie of St. Peter in Tours, France, received revelations regarding devotion to the Holy Face, with a focus on reparation for the grave and increasingly frequent sin of blasphemy. The Golden Arrow Prayer and Chaplet of the Holy Face were among the devotions Sister Marie relayed, and Venerable Leo Dupont carried on her work, resulting in the establishment of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face, approved by Pope Leo XIII. The Martin family were devoted members, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, whose religious name was Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, helped further popularize the devotion, especially amongst the Carmelites. In the 1930s Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli received visions directing her to create the Holy Face Medal, based on the image of Christ imprinted on the Shroud of Turin. By then Pope St. Pius X had approved a Mass of the Holy Face, and Pope Venerable Pius XII further approved the medal and the observance of the Feast of the Holy Face on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, though this feast is yet to appear on the General Roman Calendar.