What is the true Biblical artifact: the Oviedo Shroud vs. Veronica’s Veil?

The legend of one of the relics of the Catholic Church is the “Veil of Veronica” or simply known, “Veil of Veronica”. This piece of cloth is believed to be the real face of Jesus Christ before he was crucified on the way to the cross. According to legend, a woman had given Christ a cloth so that she could wipe her face on the cloth by creating an impression of his face on the cloth. But does this cloth show the true face of Jesus?

The Bible never refers to such an event, nor to any woman named “Veronica” which supposedly means “True Icon” in Latin. Furthermore, this cloth does not show any sign of blood that Jesus would have imprinted on his face. However, there is a cloth, which was folded on one side of Christ’s shroud, which is referred to in the Book of John 20:6-7:
“Then Simon Peter came following him, and entered the tomb, and saw that the sheets were on, and the shroud that was on his head, was not lying with the sheets, but wrapped in a separate place.” (VR).

The Vulgate Bible refers to the “napkin” as the “sudarium”, which literally means “sweat cloth” in Latin. According to ancient Hebrew law, if a person dies and his face appears beyond recognition, he must be covered with a cloth on the way to the grave.
Christ’s need to wear a sweat began when Roman soldiers beat him and pushed down a thick crown of sharp thorns that stuck firmly around his head. His face would have been covered in blood from the thorns that pierced deep into the skin of his head. Blood would have run down his face from his head in copious amounts, which had already made him unrecognizable.

Many hours later, as he hung on the cross, his body shed much more blood. Her arms were outstretched and up on the cross. Also, his feet were nailed together, so she couldn’t get up to breathe without a lot of pain. As a result, his lungs filled with edema that caused him to suffocate. After exhaling his last breath, he was taken down from the cross. Blood mixed with edema then came out of his nose and the shroud was used to trap both fluids as someone evidently tried to stanch it. As a result, two large blood stains appeared on the fabric. Furthermore, the shroud soaked up the blood that had already covered his face due to the crown of thorns pushed against his head by the Roman soldiers, causing pinpricks of blood to appear from the top of his head.

According to historical documents, the shroud had been in Jerusalem before 600 AD It was brought to Spain where it was housed in various locations. During the 9th century AD he arrived at the Cathedral of Oviedo and has remained there ever since.
It should be made very clear that the “Sudario de Oviedo”, not Veronica’s veil, is the “other” cloth found in Christ’s tomb after he rose from the dead.

The “Veil” offered to Christ to cleanse His face as He walked to the cross, by a woman named Veronica, is highly unlikely to be the “cloth” found in the tomb. Nowhere in the Bible is this story of Veronica mentioned. In fact, it looks like a poor drawing of the face of Christ. Also, Jesus would have bled on the veil, but there is no blood that can be counted. On the other hand, since the Shroud is mentioned in the Book of John, it is an actual biblical artifact. Clearly, blood, edema and sweat stain it with the body of Jesus crucified. In addition, the blood has been forensically analyzed with the Shroud of Turin and found to come from the same body: the body of Jesus.