DREAM FULFILLED - PART 2

The via dolorosa is a narrow passage from the place Christ was condemned to the burial place. If you walk along the way past the shops now selling souvenirs, you can never imagine how it must have been nearly 2000 years back. It is a very humbling experience to think why someone else would go through so much of pain and suffering giving up his life for someone else. Even though it is a congested busy bazaar, soon the noise drowns in the quiet of inner peace you experience as you walk the steps he took, and see the places where he suffered, fell, was rebuked tortured and finally crucified.

Ecce Homo Arch - Behold the Man

 

Church of Condemnation

 

Church of Flagellation

 

Prison of Christ

 

Faithful at the Third Station of the cross

Station 3 - Christ falls for the first time.

Jesus Meets Mary

Simone the cyrene helps Christ carry the Cross

Faithful with the procession cross.

 

The place where Veronica wiped the face of Jesus

 

Jesus fell for the second time here.

 

Eighth Station - Jesus spoke to the Women of Jerusalem

Ninth Station - Jesus fell for the third time.

 

Orthodox Church after the ninth station.

 The next four pictures are of the places designated as the place where Christ was stripped of his garments, nailed, hung, and died on the Cross and the stone of anointing after death.

 

 

 

 

One picture describes all.

 

The Edicule in the Church of Holy Sepulchre.

-to be contd.