The Via Dolorosa (Latin,"Way of Grief", "Way of Sorrows", "Way of Suffering" or simply "Painful Way") (Arabic: طريق الآلام) :is a street, in two parts, within the Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the path that Jesus walked, carrying his cross, on the way to his crucifixion, and ultimately, his bodily resurrection from the dead three days later
The winding route from the Antonia Fortress west to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—a distance of about 600 metres (2,000 feet)—is a celebrated place of Christian pilgrimage. The current route has been established since the 18th century, replacing various earlier versions.[1] It is today marked by nine Stations of the Cross; there have been fourteen stations since the late 15th century,[1] with the remaining five stations being inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The traditional route starts just inside the Lions' Gate (St. Stephen's Gate) in the Muslim Quarter, at the Umariya Elementary School,
The school's yard is seen below. In the background is the grey dome of the Notre Dame de Sion Ecce Homo, a convent which is located along Via Dolorosa.
The Via Dolorosa, literally “the sorrowful way,” is the traditional route in Jerusalem which our Lord traveled on the day of His crucifixion from the judgment seat of Pilate, also called the Praetorium (Matthew 27:2-26), to the place of His crucifixion on Mount Calvary. After his judgment by Pontius Pilate, the Lord Jesus was beaten, mocked and spit upon by the Roman soldiers (Matthew 27:26-31). Then he was forced to carry His own cross through the streets of Jerusalem to Golgotha, where He was crucified (Matthew 27:32-50). The Via Dolorosa is now marked with fourteen "stations of the cross" commemorating fourteen incidents that took place along the way. At least five of these incidents are not recorded in the Bible, springing instead from Roman Catholic tradition.
The first and second stations commemorate the events of Jesus' encounter with Pontius Pilate, the former in memorial of the biblical account of the trial and Jesus' subsequent scourging,[14] and the latter in memorial of the Ecce Homo speech, attributed by the Gospel of John to Pilate.[15] On the site are three early 19th-century Roman Catholic churches, taking their names from these events; the Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross, Church of the Flagellation, and Church of Ecce Homo; a large area of Roman paving, beneath these structures, was traditionally regarded as the pavement (Greek: lithostratos) described by the Bible as the location of Pilate's judgment of Jesus.[16]
1st Station, Jesus is condemned to death
Chappel of Flagellation.
After entering the compound of the Franciscan monastery, the chapel is located on the western side of the entrance. It is seen below behind the small garden which contains a display of archaeological findings. The bank of rock and the huge stones behind it are dated to the 2nd C, and were considered part of the "pavement" ("Lithostrotos") on which the judgment seat was located.
2nd Station, Jesus carries his cross
The church altar is seen in the photo below. The ceiling is supported by pink marble columns.
A model of the city at the Roman Roman is seen above, from a southern view. The temple mount is located in the top right. The Antonia fortress and the hall of judgment is located behind the temple. The Herodian aqueduct is seen leading from the bottom left to the city.
A display of archaeological findings is seen on the western wall outside the chapel.
Other findings are located in the garden.
the mosaic of the dome is designed as the crown of thorns.
Although no such thing is recounted by the canonical Gospels, and no official Christian tenet makes these claims, popular tradition has it that Jesus stumbled three times during his walk along the route; this belief is currently manifested in the identification of the three stations at which these falls occurred.
The first fall is represented by the current third station, located at the west end of the eastern fraction of the Via Dolorosa, adjacent to the 19th-century Polish Catholic Chapel;
Four stations commemorate encounters between Jesus and other people, in the city streets; one encounter is mentioned in all the Synoptic Gospels, one is mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke, and the remaining two encounters only exist in popular tradition.
With Mary, Jesus' mother: fourth station
The New Testament makes no mention of a meeting between Jesus and his mother, during the walk to his crucifixion, but popular tradition introduces one. The fourth station, the location of a 19th-century Armenian Catholic oratory, commemorates the events of this tradition
The fifth station refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him.[19] Although this narrative is included in the three Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John does not mention Simon of Cyrene[20] but instead emphasizes the portion of the journey during which Jesus carried the cross himself.[21] The current traditional site for the station is located at the east end of the western fraction of the Via Dolorosa, adjacent to the Chapel of Simon of Cyrene, a Franciscan construction built in 1895. An inscription, in the architrave of one of the Chapel doors, references the Synoptic events.
5th Station, Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross
An old square stone, located on the right side of the structure, has a cavity which is said to be the imprint of Jesus hand.
With Veronica: sixth station[edit]
A medieval Roman Catholic legend viewed a specific piece of cloth, known as the Veil of Veronica, as having been supernaturally imprinted with Jesus' image, by physical contact with Jesus' face. By metathesis of the Latin words vera icon (meaning true image) into Veronica,[28] it came to be said that the Veil of Veronica had gained its image when a Saint Veronica encountered Jesus, and wiped the sweat from his face with the cloth; no element of this legend is present in the bible
On the old stone pillar, is an inscription with the station's name
The second fall is represented by the current seventh station, located at a major crossroad junction, adjacent to a Franciscan chapel, built in 1875. In Hadrian's era, this was the junction of the main cardo (north-south road), with the decumanus (east-west road) which became the Via Dolorosa; the remains of a tetrapylon, which marked this Roman junction, can be seen in the lower level of the Franciscan chapel.
8th Station, Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
A stone with a monogram, embedded into the wall, marks the station ("IC-XC NI-KA", means: Jesus Christ conquers)
The Eighth station commemorates an episode described by the Gospel of Luke, alone among the canonical gospels, in which Jesus encounters pious women on his journey, and is able to stop and give a sermon.[29] However, prior to the 15th century the final station in Jesus' walk was believed to occur at a point earlier on the Via Dolorosa, before this location would have been reached. The present eighth station is adjacent to the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Charalampus; it is marked by the word Nika (a Greek word meaning Victory) carved into the wall, and an embossed cross.
9th Station, Jesus falls the third time
A Coptic church is located near this courtyard. It can be entered by a staircase from the courtyard.
On the right wall of this small church is a painting of a Biblical scene (1 Kings 10:1) - King Solomon receiving the Queen of Sheba.
11th Station, Crucifixion: Jesus is nailed to the cross
12th Station, Jesus dies on the cross
13th Station, Jesus is taken down from the cross
14th Station, Jesus is laid in the tomb
Thus ends the journey of the "way of the Grief". It ended here, but a new journey sparked from this end , starting a new faith which changed the World.
“Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” asked the men. “He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,saying, ‘The •Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day’?And they remembered His words.
Will they include a 15th station (May be the place he ascended into heaven)
Christ’s Resurrection Guarantees Ours
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the •first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.For since death came through a man,ad the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.But each in his own order: Christ, the first fruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end,ah when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father,ai when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be abolished is death For God has put everything under His feet.But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception. And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.
The winding route from the Antonia Fortress west to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—a distance of about 600 metres (2,000 feet)—is a celebrated place of Christian pilgrimage. The current route has been established since the 18th century, replacing various earlier versions.[1] It is today marked by nine Stations of the Cross; there have been fourteen stations since the late 15th century,[1] with the remaining five stations being inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The traditional route starts just inside the Lions' Gate (St. Stephen's Gate) in the Muslim Quarter, at the Umariya Elementary School,
The Via Dolorosa, literally “the sorrowful way,” is the traditional route in Jerusalem which our Lord traveled on the day of His crucifixion from the judgment seat of Pilate, also called the Praetorium (Matthew 27:2-26), to the place of His crucifixion on Mount Calvary. After his judgment by Pontius Pilate, the Lord Jesus was beaten, mocked and spit upon by the Roman soldiers (Matthew 27:26-31). Then he was forced to carry His own cross through the streets of Jerusalem to Golgotha, where He was crucified (Matthew 27:32-50). The Via Dolorosa is now marked with fourteen "stations of the cross" commemorating fourteen incidents that took place along the way. At least five of these incidents are not recorded in the Bible, springing instead from Roman Catholic tradition.
The first and second stations commemorate the events of Jesus' encounter with Pontius Pilate, the former in memorial of the biblical account of the trial and Jesus' subsequent scourging,[14] and the latter in memorial of the Ecce Homo speech, attributed by the Gospel of John to Pilate.[15] On the site are three early 19th-century Roman Catholic churches, taking their names from these events; the Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross, Church of the Flagellation, and Church of Ecce Homo; a large area of Roman paving, beneath these structures, was traditionally regarded as the pavement (Greek: lithostratos) described by the Bible as the location of Pilate's judgment of Jesus.[16]
A display of archaeological findings is seen on the western wall outside the chapel.
Other findings are located in the garden.
Ancient Roman games at Station 2
Church of Condemnation
The right inscription is a verse from John 19 2 ("And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head...").
Although no such thing is recounted by the canonical Gospels, and no official Christian tenet makes these claims, popular tradition has it that Jesus stumbled three times during his walk along the route; this belief is currently manifested in the identification of the three stations at which these falls occurred.
Four stations commemorate encounters between Jesus and other people, in the city streets; one encounter is mentioned in all the Synoptic Gospels, one is mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke, and the remaining two encounters only exist in popular tradition.
With Mary, Jesus' mother: fourth station
The New Testament makes no mention of a meeting between Jesus and his mother, during the walk to his crucifixion, but popular tradition introduces one. The fourth station, the location of a 19th-century Armenian Catholic oratory, commemorates the events of this tradition
The fifth station refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him.[19] Although this narrative is included in the three Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John does not mention Simon of Cyrene[20] but instead emphasizes the portion of the journey during which Jesus carried the cross himself.[21] The current traditional site for the station is located at the east end of the western fraction of the Via Dolorosa, adjacent to the Chapel of Simon of Cyrene, a Franciscan construction built in 1895. An inscription, in the architrave of one of the Chapel doors, references the Synoptic events.
An old square stone, located on the right side of the structure, has a cavity which is said to be the imprint of Jesus hand.
With Veronica: sixth station[edit]
A medieval Roman Catholic legend viewed a specific piece of cloth, known as the Veil of Veronica, as having been supernaturally imprinted with Jesus' image, by physical contact with Jesus' face. By metathesis of the Latin words vera icon (meaning true image) into Veronica,[28] it came to be said that the Veil of Veronica had gained its image when a Saint Veronica encountered Jesus, and wiped the sweat from his face with the cloth; no element of this legend is present in the bible
8th Station, Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
The Eighth station commemorates an episode described by the Gospel of Luke, alone among the canonical gospels, in which Jesus encounters pious women on his journey, and is able to stop and give a sermon.[29] However, prior to the 15th century the final station in Jesus' walk was believed to occur at a point earlier on the Via Dolorosa, before this location would have been reached. The present eighth station is adjacent to the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Charalampus; it is marked by the word Nika (a Greek word meaning Victory) carved into the wall, and an embossed cross.
9th Station, Jesus falls the third time
11th Station, Crucifixion: Jesus is nailed to the cross
12th Station, Jesus dies on the cross
13th Station, Jesus is taken down from the cross
14th Station, Jesus is laid in the tomb
Thus ends the journey of the "way of the Grief". It ended here, but a new journey sparked from this end , starting a new faith which changed the World.
Will they include a 15th station (May be the place he ascended into heaven)
Resurrection Essential to the Faith
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead,v how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Chris whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the •first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.For since death came through a man,ad the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.But each in his own order: Christ, the first fruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end,ah when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father,ai when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be abolished is death For God has put everything under His feet.But when it says “everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception. And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.
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