Jerusalem

Pieces from this place

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The Lamentation

Ref. AS006016 – AS006030 – AS006042

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Ecce Homo

Ref. AS008016 – AS008030 – AS008042

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Our Lady of Sorrows

Ref. AS013016 – AS013030 – AS013042

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The Dormition of the Virgin

Ref. AS021016 – AS021030 – AS021042

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The Last Supper

Ref. AS022016 – AS022030 – AS022042

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The Weeping of Saint Peter

Ref. AS023016 – AS023030 – AS023042

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Saint James the Apostle, the pilgrim

Ref. AS038016 – AS038030 – AS038042

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The Road to Calvary

Ref. AS042016 – AS042030 – AS042042

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Saint Veronica

Ref. AS043016 – AS043030 – AS043042

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The Crucifixion

Ref. AS044016 – AS044030 – AS044042

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Stabat Mater

Ref. AS045016 – AS045030 – AS045042

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Stations of the Cross

Ref. AS065048

The Lamentation

Just inside the Holy Sepulchre there is a slab of rose stone where tradition places this moment. Pilgrims kneel to touch it before they look at anything else.

Ecce Homo

Ecce homo is two Latin words, behold the man, spoken by Pilate in the praetorium. There is an arch with that name today on the Via Dolorosa, at the second station.

Our Lady of Sorrows

This is the mother at the foot of the cross, on Golgotha, which today lies inside the Holy Sepulchre itself and is reached by a narrow stone stair.

The Dormition of the Virgin

In the Kidron valley, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, the empty tomb of Mary has been venerated since the fifth century. The feast was born there and spread to the whole Christian calendar: it is the same one the West calls the Assumption.

The Last Supper

The Cenacle, on Mount Zion, is the upper room where tradition places the supper. The building visited today is Gothic, raised by the crusaders over far older remains, and for centuries it was sanctuary and mosque at once. The scene this panel keeps begins in that room.

The Weeping of Saint Peter

On the slope of Mount Zion, the church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu, which means at the cock crow, marks the place of the house of Caiaphas where Peter denied and where he wept. Beneath the church a rock cut prison is preserved, and the stone stairway Jesus may have climbed that night.

Saint James the Apostle, the pilgrim

Brother of John and one of the three who climbed Tabor, he was the first apostle martyred, beheaded in Jerusalem around the year 44. Tradition carried his remains to Compostela, and from there was born the way still walked today.

The Road to Calvary

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem is not an ancient street but a route fixed in the eighteenth century, when the Franciscans set the stations in the order they are prayed today. The route was agreed; what came before it is the habit of walking it.

Saint Veronica

There is no gospel for this scene: it appears in none of the four. It entered the Way of the Cross through custom, and the name itself says everything, vera icona, true image. It is a scene born to explain a relic.

The Crucifixion

The rock of Golgotha is today inside the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, up a narrow stair to the right of the entrance. It can be touched through an opening beneath the altar. It is less than forty metres from the tomb: in the first century this was an abandoned quarry outside the walls.

Stabat Mater

The name comes from a thirteenth century hymn that begins by saying the mother was standing. It does not say she wept or collapsed: it says she was standing, and the whole image rests on that verb.

Stations of the Cross

There are fifteen, not fourteen. The fifteenth is the resurrection, added in the twentieth century because a route that ends at the tomb leaves the story half told. Some parishes pray fourteen and some pray fifteen: here there are fifteen, and anyone who prefers can stop at the fourteenth.