she was born in the Levant in the eighth century AD to a rich family living in Syria and when grew up she decided to live a virgin for Christ, she went to the monastery of the Virgins in Akhmim and became a nun, in age of 26 she became the head of the monastery in the era Pope Michael I.[1][2] In a period of turmoil that was experienced in the era of Marwan II Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, Some of his soldiers attacked the monastery of the angel Michael, for the purpose of stealing and raping nuns, when they saw Veronica and to its beauty they decided not to kill her and kidnap to sent her to the Caliph to become his slave, When Veronica knew their plans, she decided that mislead them, And told them that they possess magical oil that can protect them in battle and not to be killed, provided that paint the place that is afraid to be hit by the sword with this oil and told them to make sure the effectiveness of this oil, I will paint my neck with this oil and one of you hit my neck with the sword with all his strength, soldiers believed that, and Veronica went to bring the oil, and knelt down and prayed to Christ to be a virgin martyr for his name and soldiers don't harem other nun then painted her neck with oil and one of the soldiers pulled out his sword and hit him with all his might he cut off her head immediately, soldiers were very afraid of what happened, and they escaped without stealing anything from the monastery or harmed nuns.[1][3]