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anrmenchaca47
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How did they originate? I thought they were based on scripture.
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Dolphin
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I’ve heard Mary set up a stations of the cross with small rocks in her garden to remember the passion with each rock bring a different station
Tis_Bearself
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Wikipedia is your friend.
en.wikipedia.org
As explained in the article, pilgrims to Jerusalem actually walked the Stations in person and they still do today. But not all Christians could go to Jerusalem and then for hundreds of years the sites of Jesus’ walk were inaccessible, or some unrelated Muslim building had been put on the site of the traditional spot where Jesus walked. So putting the stations in a church or in an outdoor shrine was an easy way for people to walk figuratively with Christ and meditate on his passion.
Stations of the Cross - Wikipedia
As explained in the article, pilgrims to Jerusalem actually walked the Stations in person and they still do today. But not all Christians could go to Jerusalem and then for hundreds of years the sites of Jesus’ walk were inaccessible, or some unrelated Muslim building had been put on the site of the traditional spot where Jesus walked. So putting the stations in a church or in an outdoor shrine was an easy way for people to walk figuratively with Christ and meditate on his passion.
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Tis_Bearself
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As for the stations being in Scripture, some are, such as Jesus is condemned, Jesus takes up his cross, Simon helps Jesus, Jesus meets the women, and all the crucifixion and burial ones. Others, like Jesus falls three times, Jesus meets his mother, and Veronica, are based on sacred tradition.
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1ke
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People commemorating the events, by walking the path in Jerusalem.
Once the Holy Land became too dangerous to visit on pilgrimage, Europeans recreates the pilgrimage with statues, carvings, or paintings of the events— which became the devotion we know today.
They are. Is something leading you to question that?
The station of Veronica wiping the face of
Jesus is not explicitly in the Gospel accounts. Some are pious tradition.
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Todd_Easton
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Some historical background to this devotion can be found in the Catholic Encyclopedia article, Stations of the Cross.
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tafan2
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I do not think this is unbelievable. I have no idea if it is true or not, but why would it be unbelievable? I will say, your thought on this topic in no way violates any forum rules which I know of. But someone else must see something very wrong with your post, perhaps they could enlighten us. Hard to have a good conversation if people are not willing to say why they disagree with something.
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dconklin
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I think remember being told that the Franciscans started this traditions. Of course, I attended The Franciscan Univ of Steubenville.
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tafan2
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Wikipedia has a history.
en.wikipedia.org
About 2/3rds down the page there is a history in the Catholic Encyclopedai:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15569a.htm
Stations of the Cross - Wikipedia
About 2/3rds down the page there is a history in the Catholic Encyclopedai:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15569a.htm
Tis_Bearself
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It’s correct. St. Francis, I believe, authored one of the first sets of Stations of the Cross meditations. Some people still use them today. Others use a later set written by St. Alphonsus Liguori, that is quite popular.
The Franciscans also popularized the practice of leading Christians to the stations on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, when they were able to do so in view of Muslim controls. They were also the first to put indulgenced Stations in their churches in the late 1600s. I think before that, some churches and places in Europe had stations since about the 15th century, but you didn’t get the indulgence for doing them there, only if you went to Jerusalem and actually visited the traditional real Via Dolorosa stations.
Here’s a nice little history by the National Shrine of St. Francis:
http://www.shrinesf.org/stations-of-the-cross.html
The Franciscans also popularized the practice of leading Christians to the stations on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, when they were able to do so in view of Muslim controls. They were also the first to put indulgenced Stations in their churches in the late 1600s. I think before that, some churches and places in Europe had stations since about the 15th century, but you didn’t get the indulgence for doing them there, only if you went to Jerusalem and actually visited the traditional real Via Dolorosa stations.
Here’s a nice little history by the National Shrine of St. Francis:
http://www.shrinesf.org/stations-of-the-cross.html
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Dan_Defender
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In reading about the tradition of Our Lady of Ephesus, I was very surprised by this statement: Due to the actions of Pope Leo XIII in 1896 and Pope John XXIII in 1961, the Catholic Church first removed plenary indulgences from the Church of the Dormition in Jerusalem and then bestowed them for all time to pilgrims to Mary’s House in Ephesus. To me, this gives weight to the idea that there were Stations of the Cross there.
Tis_Bearself
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Hmm, wonder why they removed them from Church of the Dormition?
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Dan_Defender
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It seems that it was because the tradition of the Dormition and Assumption occurring in Ephesus prevailed.
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undead_rat
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Episcopal churches also exhibit the 14 stations in their sanctuaries.
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anrmenchaca47
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Just wondering…I was reading scripture and praying the rosary. As I was locating all the mysteries I started to remember the stations…so as I was reading I was trying to find where all the stations were in scripture…
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