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The Via Dolorosa (Latin for 'Sorrowful Way', often translated 'Way of Suffering'; Arabic: طريق الآلام; Hebrew: ויה דולורוזה) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem. It represents the path that Jesus took, forced by the Roman soldiers, on the way to his crucifixion .
Ecce Homo, Caravaggio, 1605. Ecce homo (/ ˈ ɛ k s i ˈ h oʊ m oʊ /, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈettʃe ˈomo], Classical Latin: [ˈɛkkɛ ˈhɔmoː]; "behold the man") are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John, when he presents a scourged Jesus, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his crucifixion (John 19:5).
The Via Dolorosa (Latin for 'Sorrowful Way') is a street in the Old City of Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the path Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. Via Dolorosa may also refer to: Via Dolorosa, a 1995 album by Ophthalamia; Via Dolorosa, a 1998 play by David Hare "Via Dolorosa" (song), a 1984 song by Sandi Patty
The start of the traditional Christian observance of the last walk of Jesus from prison to crucifixion, the Via Dolorosa, begins at the Lions' Gate, called St Stephen's Gate by Christians. Carved into the wall above the gate are four lions, two on the left and two on the right.
Catholic tradition places the Flagellation on the site of the Church of the Flagellation (the second station of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. It is the second Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary and the sixth station of the John Paul II's Scriptural Way of the Cross.
The stations grew out of imitations of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, which is a traditional processional route symbolising the path Jesus walked to Mount Calvary. The objective of the stations is to help the Christian faithful to make a spiritual pilgrimage through contemplation of the Passion of Christ.
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The faithful go in solemn procession, from the Church of Saint Roch in Bairro Alto to Graça Convent in São Vicente, in emulation of the Via Dolorosa, the path taken by Jesus on the way to His crucifixion on Mount Calvary, making seven stops along the way that correspond to some of the episodes of the Passion narrative. These are: [2] [3]