Of two hymns, Stabat Mater Dolorosa ( about the Sorrows of Mary ) and Stabat Mater Speciosa ( joyfully referring to the Nativity of Jesus ), Stabat Mater usually refers to the first, a 13th-century Catholic hymn to Mary, variously attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi and to Innocent III.

The substantial remains of the western cardo have now been exposed to view near the junction with Suq el-Bazaar, and remnants of one of the tetrapylones are preserved in the 19th century Franciscan chapel at the junction of the Via Dolorosa and Suq Khan ez-Zeit.

Pietà is one of the three common artistic representations of a sorrowful Virgin Mary, the other two being Mater Dolorosa ( Mother of Sorrows ) and Stabat Mater ( here stands the mother ).

) with one of the two main east-west roads ( which is now the Via Dolorosa ), and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

Mater Dolorosa is one of the three common artistic representations of a sorrowful Virgin Mary, the other two being Stabat Mater ( stood the mother ) and Pietà.

The Via Dolorosa is the modern remnant of one of the two main east-west routes ( Decumanus Maximus ) through Aelia Capitolina, as built by Hadrian.

Necessarily, such devotional literature expanded on the terse accounts of the Via Dolorosa in the Bible ; the period of time between Christ ’ s condemnation by Pilate and his resurrection receives no more than one or two lines in all four gospels.

The Dolorosa has been set to music by many composers, with the most famous settings being those by Palestrina, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Haydn, Rossini, and Dvořák.

The most recent version of the legend recounts that Saint Veronica from Jerusalem encountered Jesus along the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary.

They have been described as ' a sort of Via Dolorosa in miniature '... since little or no rebuilding took place on the site of the great basilica.

The Greek Orthodox allege that the real place that Jesus was held was the similarly named Prison of Christ, within their Monastery of the Praetorium, located near the Church of Ecce Homo, at the first station on the Via Dolorosa.

The Armenians regard a recess in the Monastery of the Flagellation, a building near the second station on the Via Dolorosa, as the Prison of Christ.

Reenacting the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem in Christianity | Jerusalem on the Via Dolorosa from the Lions ' Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Reenacting the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem on the Via Dolorosa from the Lions ' Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

He also produced a " Mater Dolorosa " after Van Dyck, and Michelangelo's cartoon of the Battle of Cascina depicting the " Surprise of the Soldiers on the Banks of the Arno.

He focused attention on the human drama of the Passion, as in a painting where Mary and the apostles hear the crowd cheering Jesus on the Via Dolorosa, and another where St. John escorts Mary home after her son's death.

The Via Dolorosa ( Latin ," Way of Grief " or " Way of Suffering ") 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.

Throughout the fourteenth century, a number of events, marked by stations on the Via Dolorosa, emerged in devotional literature and on the physical site in Jerusalem.

Ironically, archaeological discoveries in the 20th century now indicate that the early route of the Via Dolorosa on the Western hill was actually a more realistic path.

The equation of the present Via Dolorosa with the biblical route is based on the assumption that the Praetorium was adjacent to the Antonia Fortress.

Shop on the Via Dolorosa near Eece Homo Arch, Jerusalem, 1891

The current enumeration is partly based on a circular devotional walk, organised by the Franciscans in the 14th century ; their devotional route, heading east along the Via Dolorosa ( the opposite direction to the usual westward pilgrimage ), began and ended at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also passing through both Gethsemene and Mount Zion during its course.

When later building works narrowed the Via Dolorosa, the two arches on either side of the central arch became incorporated into a succession of buildings ; on the northern side, the Church of Ecce Homo now preserves the north arch ; on the southern side, in the 16th century the south arch.

The third fall is represented by the current ninth station, which is not actually located on the Via Dolorosa, instead being located at the entrance to the Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery and the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Saint Anthony, which together form the roof structure of the subterranean Chapel of Saint Helena in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; the Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox churches split in 1959, and prior to that time the monastic buildings were considered a single Monastery.

Pietro Lorenzetti's fresco of women following Jesus on Via Dolorosa, Assisi, 1320

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.

Reenacting the Stations of the Cross on Via Dolorosa

As a liturgical sequence, the Dolorosa was suppressed, along with hundreds of other sequences, by the Council of Trent, but restored to the missal by Pope Benedict XIII in 1727 for the Feast of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The church shelters also a superb white marble statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dated from the end of the 17th century and known under the name of MATER Dolorosa.

Our Lady of Sorrows ( Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens ), the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows ( Latin: Mater Dolorosa, at times just Dolorosa ), and Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life.

As Jesus carries the cross along the Via Dolorosa to Calvary, Seraphia wipes Jesus ' face with her veil.

Stations of the Cross ( or Way of the Cross ; in Latin, Via Crucis ; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way ) is a series of artistic representations, very often sculptural, depicting Christ Carrying the Cross to his crucifixion in the final hours ( or Passion ) of Jesus before he died, and the devotions using that series to commemorate the Passion, often moving physically around a set of stations.

Visitors can also walk along a recreation of the Via Dolorosa, the street in the old walled city of Jerusalem where Jesus carried His cross to Calvary.

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After the trials, Jesus made his way to Calvary ( the path is traditionally called via Dolorosa ) and the three synoptic gospels indicate that he was assisted by Simon of Cyrene, the Romans compelling him to do so.

Jesus is taken away to be crucified, though He pauses the Via Dolorosa to heal a group of cripples in an alley, regardless of His weakened condition.

The current sixth station of the Via Dolorosa commemorates this legendary encounter between Jesus and Veronica.

It has a " Dolorosa " sculpture by Francisco Salzillo and an articulated statue of Jesus that gives the blessing on Good Friday on a local hilltop designated Mount Calvary, before a congregation normally numbering some 30, 000.

The first reports of a pilgrimage route corresponding to the Biblical events dates from the Byzantine era ; during that time, a Holy Thursday procession started from the top of the Mount of Olives, stopped in Gethsemane, entered the Old City at the Lions ' Gate, and followed approximately the current route to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; however, there were no actual stops during the route along the Via Dolorosa itself.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

His Virgin and Christ, Ecce Homo and Mater Dolorosa ( London and Antwerp ) are known for their serene and dignified mastery, gaining in delicacy and nuance in the works of his maturity.

In Christian iconography she is often identified with the Mater Dolorosa.

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For example, the fourteen Stations of the Cross are central to the depiction of the Via Dolorosa in The Passion of the Christ.

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Adiposis Dolorosa ( Dercum disease ), is a rare condition involving multiple painful lipomas, swelling, and fatigue.

The Dolorosa was well known by the end of the fourteenth century and Georgius Stella wrote of its use in 1388, while other historians note its use later in the same century.

The devotion of the Via Dolorosa, for which there have been a number of variant routes in Jerusalem, was probably developed by the Franciscans after they were granted administration of the Christian holy places in Jerusalem in 1342.