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Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem. 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.
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.
The place marks the fifth station of Via Dolorosa, and refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him. [2] Although this narrative is included in the three Synoptic Gospels , the Gospel of John does not mention Simon of Cyrene [ 3 ] but instead emphasizes the portion of the journey during ...
He had been sentenced to be crucified, and was being led along the Via Dolorosa – the pathway to the hill called Calvary. Calvary was that noted place of execution for those who had been ...
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.
Via Dolorosa, the traditional "Way of Sorrows" walked by Jesus from his trial by Pilate to the site of execution; Mount Zion, with the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) and the nearby site of the Dormition of Mary; Mount of Olives, whose western flank is facing Jerusalem (for sites on its eastern side see Bethany and Bethphage).
The church marks the spot traditionally held to be where Jesus took up his cross after being sentenced to death by crucifixion.This tradition is based on the assumption that an area of Roman flagstones, discovered beneath the building and beneath the adjacent Convent of the Sisters of Zion, are those of Gabbatha, the pavement which the Bible describes as the location of Pontius Pilate's ...
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.
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