"It was an image from the handkerchief of St Veronica that I had seen many years ago as a child, in Godshill church in the Isle of Wight, when we were on holiday. I'm not a religious person"
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...e-1571909.html
She does not say she is an atheist and she conjured up an image from her mind she saw as a child