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As the Stations of the Cross are prayed during the season of Lent in Catholic churches, each station is traditionally followed by a verse of the Stabat Mater, composed in the 13th century by Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. James Matthew Wilson's poetic sequence, The Stations of the Cross, is written in the same meter as da Todi's poem. [37]
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to the Virgin Mary that portrays her suffering as mother during the crucifixion of her son Jesus Christ. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III .
Stabat Mater (Latin for "the mother was standing") is a compositional form in the crucifixion of Jesus in art depicting the Virgin Mary under the cross during the crucifixion of Christ alongside John the apostle. Rood cross group, Church of St Mary, Gdansk. It is common in groups of sculpture on a rood screen, and in paintings.
The number of other figures shown depended on the size and medium of the work, but there was a similar trend for early depictions to show a number of figures, giving way in the High Middle Ages to just the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, shown standing on either side of the cross, as in the Stabat Mater depictions, or sculpted or ...
Articles relating to the Stations of the Cross, a series of images depicting Jesus on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers.The stations grew out of imitations of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, which is a traditional processional route symbolising the actual path Jesus walked to Mount Calvary.
In the upper part of the painting there is a cross bearing an image of Christ and at the bottom other elements of the passion story, such as nails, a crown of thorns, and the dice which the soldiers rolled to divide up Christ’s garments. An angel holds a mirror that reflects Mary’s sorrows to the world.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. King Charles even had a part in the cross's making, as he hammered the hallmark onto the silver. During the procession, the Cross of Wales was carried at the very ...
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