Via Dolorosa

The traditional way

The traditional course begins just inside the Door from the Lion (Door holy Stephan), at the Umariya Elementary school, close to the place where old the Forteresse Antonia was and directs itself towards the west by the Old city to the Church of the the Holy Sepulchre. This course draws its origin from a procession organized by the Franciscain S at the 14th century.

Even if certain streets of Jerusalem are announced in English, in Hebrew and Arab on the various panels, one can also find indicated on the wall the inscription Via Dolorosa .

Other ways

The procession of the Maundy Thursday Byzantine begins top of the Mount of Olives, stops in the garden of Gethsémani, enters the Old city by the Door of the Lion and roughly follows the current way in direction of the Church of the the Holy Sepulchre.

In VIIIe century, several stops were carried out during the way in particular along the southern part of the Old city, at the house of Caïphe, on the Mont Sion, with the Praetorium then finally with the Church of the the Holy Sepulchre.

Stations of the Way of Cross

; Station I The First Station is close to the Monastery of Scourging, where Jesus was questioned by Pilate then condemned thereafter (Jean XIX 1-2-3)
19.1 Alors Pilate took Jesus, and made it beat rods.
the 19.2 soldiers braided a crown of spines which they posed on his head, and they covered it with a coat of crimson; then, approaching him ,
19.3 they said: Hello, king of the Jews! And they gave him bellows.
The vault was built in the years 1920 on the site of a building set up with the Middle Ages by the Crusaders, is now managed by Franciscains. It is of this place, that every Friday leaves the processions traditionally. The church has remarkable stained glasses representing Christ whipped on the Column, Pilate " washing Mains" and releasing Barabbas. Above the high altar, under the central cupola, on the ground, is a mosaic gold where one can see the Couronne of Spines bored by the Star S.

; Station II The Second Station is close to the vestiges of an old known Roman construction today under the name of Arche Ecce Homo , in memory of the words pronounced by Pilate when it showed Jesus with crowd. This carries triumphal located on the Eastern side of the city at the time was set up under Adrien in 135 a. J.C celebrated the catch of Jerusalem. Only part of this building is visible today. The left part of the arc which does not exist any more, formed part formerly of a Monastère Derviche Islamique; The right part of the Triumphal arch is always preserved and is today inside the Church of the Sisters of Sion. This church was built during second half of last century on the vestiges of old ruins, like the above mentioned Roman triumphal arch, part of the fortifications and court of the Forteresse Antonia and the remarkable vestiges of the Pavé S of the street dating from the Roman antiquity, also called Lithostratus . On certain stones one can notice old traces of play of Dé S, which confirms the assumption according to which it was about the place where the Roman soldiers played to gain clothing of Jesus. It is finally necessary to mention the Piscine of Struthion, an old water tank dating from the II E, later covered by the Emperor Hadrian.

; Station III The Third Station commemorates the first fall of Christ on the Via Dolorosa . The place is marked by a small vault belonging to the catholic Armenian patriarchate of Jerusalem. Its rebuilding was carried out at the 19th century and they are the soldiers Catholiques Army Polonaise who completed renovation works during the Second world war.

; Station IV It is about a church dedicated to Notre-Dame of the Spasm in order to commemorate there the meeting of Marie and its Son carrying the Croix. If the tradition of a halt in this place is institutionalized since the 13th century century, it is certainly older insofar as there exist indisputable evidence of a Byzantine church . The excavations required by the construction of the current church Armenian, put at the day the remainders of a mosaic paving stone Byzantine in of the 6th century or probably of the 7th century century, which makes it possible to sit the tradition firmly. This small oratorical is surmounted by a panel surrounded by planks (carved by the Polish artist Zieliensky) accounting for two Semelle S of Sandale S and symbolizing the place of the meeting.

; Station V An inscription on the architrave of a door commemorates the meeting between Jesus and Simon de Cyrène, to which one entrusted the responsibility of carry the door Croix of Christ to the Golgotha (the Calvaire), the place of the Crucifixion. Put aside Jean, this episode is confirmed by the Évangiles.

; Station VI A church belonging to the Catholiques Greeks preserves the memory of the meeting between Jesus and Veronique, which one can also see the tomb. It is at the time of this holy meeting that Veronique essuya the face of Christ with a veil of Soie and on which would have printed the features of its face. This holy relic would be kept, since the eighth century in the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome.

; Station VII The place of the second fall of Jesus is marked by a column, located at the crossing of Via Dolorosa and picturesque and alive street of the Market.

; Station VIII On the wall external of a monastery Greek Orthodoxe a small cross blackened by time is carved. It was in this place that Jesus met the pious Femmes. These women had followed it, while crying, over the way of the Calvaire. This episode is told in the Gospel according to holy Luc at the beginning of the chapter (Luc 23-27-28).

; Station IX The third fall of Jesus is commemorated by a column of the Roman era at the entry of a monastery Copte.

The five last stations of the Chemin of cross are all inside the the Holy Sepulchre.

See too

Way of cross
Golgotha

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