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STATIONS OF THE See also:CROSS , a See also:series of 14 pictures or images representing the closing scenes in the See also:Passion of See also:Christ, viz. (I) the condemnation by See also:Pilate, (2) the reception of the cross, (3) Christ's first fall, (4) the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with His See also:mother, (5) See also:Simon of See also:Cyrene carrying the cross, (6) See also:Veronica wiping the See also:face of Jesus, (q) the second fall, (8) the exhortation to the See also:women of
See also:Jerusalem, (9) the third fall, (1o) the stripping of the clothes, (II) the crucifixion, (12) the See also:death, (13) the descent from the cross, (14) the See also:burial. Sometimes a 15th—the finding of the cross by See also:Helena—is added; on the other See also:hand in the See also:diocese of See also:Vienna, the stations were at the end of the 18th See also:century reduced to eleven.. They See also:form a very popular See also:item in See also:Roman See also:Catholic devotion. The representations are usually ranged See also:round the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; sometimes they are found in the open See also:air, especially on the ascent to some elevated church or See also:shrine.
The devotion began among the See also:Franciscans, who, as the guardians of the See also:holy places in Jerusalem, sought by this means to enable Christians to make a See also:pilgrimage at least in spirit. See also:Pope See also:Innocent XII. in 1694 declared that the indulgences granted for visiting See also:Palestine might be gained by members of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order who, simply visiting the stations of the cross wherever represented, exercised a devout meditation as they passed from station to station. These indulgences were extended by See also:Benedict XIII. in 1726 to all the faithful, and See also:Clement XII. five years later granted the See also:privilege to churches other than See also:Francis-can, provided the stations were erected by a Franciscan. In 1857 the Roman Catholic bishops in See also:England received faculties, renewed quinquenially, permitting them to erect the stations with the accompanying indulgences, and they often delegate this See also:faculty to priests.
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