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Meanings of stations of the cross in English

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(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary.

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        The depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion.

              Usage of stations of the cross in English
              1
              Fourteen wild stations of the cross.
              The ginger man
              2
              The practice of making the stations of the cross dwelt in particular detail on Jesus's physical pain and sorrow.
              A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
              3
              Near the lighthouse and semaphore a paved path, marked with the stations of the cross, leads to a chapel.
              Riviera Towns
              4
              Her stations of the cross.
              Haunted: a novel of stories
              5
              Once these stations of the cross were achieved within the hospital, the whole circuit began again in the outside world.
              Girl, Interrupted
              6
              From the fixed price I manage to bend the knee at some of the great Lyonnaise culinary stations of the cross.
              The Guardian
              7
              Her story is interspersed with titles recounting the successive moments in Jesus's progression to the crucifixion: his stations of the cross.
              The Guardian
              8
              Dozens of brown-robed, Franciscan Friars are slowly, solemnly walking the stations of the cross, their hands clasped in front of them.
              The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
              9
              Like the stations of the cross, Ted heard one guy say with a grin, and all the guys around him laughed.
              Gutshot straight
              10
              There were candles on the altar, paintings of the stations of the cross on the pillars, and confessional closets near the door.
              Children of the Market Place
              11
              Walking up there at a chill, cloudless 7am took me past some of the stations of the cross of the civil rights movement.
              The Guardian
              12
              And so did countless people in News Corp, Fairfax, Seven, Nine, Ten and all the other stations of the cross that lead to such crucifixions.
              News.com.au
              13
              The concrete sculpture can be reached by climbing past 14 stations of the cross built into the hillside, a stiff penance in the baking sun.
              The Irish Times
              14
              Fr Martin McNamara with two of Evie Hone's paintings of the stations of the cross in Ss Peter and Paul church in Kiltullagh, Co Galway.
              The Irish Times
              15
              But the priest drew her towards the other Stations of the Cross.
              Abbe Mouret's Transgression
              16
              Thinking Anew:THE Stations of the Cross are still popular during Lent.
              The Irish Times
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