Cura sanitatis Tiberii

Cura sanitatis Tiberii ("The cure of the health of Tiberius") is a short legendary text which, like other supplements to the Gospel of Nicodemus, is grouped among the New Testament Apocrypha.

According to the narrative, the Roman emperor Tiberius, gravely ill, sent Volusianus to Judea to search for Jesus, who was reported to be able to cure all sicknesses.

Volusianus learned in Judea that the provincial governor Pontius Pilate had recently allowed the Jews to put Jesus to death.

Despairing of success, Volusianus then heard that Veronica possessed a miraculous veil imprinted with the face of Jesus.

[2] Cura sanitatis Tiberii, thought to have been composed between the 5th and 7th centuries, is the earliest known written form of the widespread medieval legend of Veronica's veil,[3] which was soon afterwards reworked in the better-known text Vindicta Salvatoris ("The Avenging of the Saviour").