(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.
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1 There is no doubt Albert Reynolds walked his " via crucis " on that eventful date.
2 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Via Crucis , by F. Marion Crawford
3 The Project Gutenberg EBook of Via Crucis , by F. Marion Crawford
4 Unobservant of each other, they reached the Via Crucis , which leads up to S. Pietro in Montorio.
5 There I wrote the "Christmas-tree," the " Via Crucis , " the "Responses to the Seven Sacraments," etc.
1 Fourteen wild stations of the cross .
2 The practice of making the stations of the cross dwelt in particular detail on Jesus's physical pain and sorrow.
3 Near the lighthouse and semaphore a paved path, marked with the stations of the cross , leads to a chapel.
4 Her stations of the cross .
5 Once these stations of the cross were achieved within the hospital, the whole circuit began again in the outside world.
6 From the fixed price I manage to bend the knee at some of the great Lyonnaise culinary stations of the cross .
7 Her story is interspersed with titles recounting the successive moments in Jesus's progression to the crucifixion: his stations of the cross .
8 Dozens of brown-robed, Franciscan Friars are slowly, solemnly walking the stations of the cross , their hands clasped in front of them.
9 Like the stations of the cross , Ted heard one guy say with a grin, and all the guys around him laughed.
10 There were candles on the altar, paintings of the stations of the cross on the pillars, and confessional closets near the door.
11 Walking up there at a chill, cloudless 7am took me past some of the stations of the cross of the civil rights movement.
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.
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.
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.
15 But the priest drew her towards the other Stations of the Cross .
16 Thinking Anew:THE Stations of the Cross are still popular during Lent.
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