The Stations of the Cross
by Herbert Thurston
Read The Stations of the Cross by Herbert Thurston online, free: 14 chapters, public domain, on Papyras.
Contents
- The Preface
- The Contents
- The List of Illustrations
- Chapter I—The Veneration of the Holy Places
- Chapter II—The Beginnings of the Via Crucis
- Chapter III—The Earliest Stations and their Sequence
- Chapter IV—The “Seven Falls”
- Chapter V—The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jan Pascha
- Chapter VI—The “Via Dolorosa” at Jerusalem from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day
- Chapter VII—The Devotional Aspect of the Stations
- Chapter VIII—The Stations in Modern Times
- Appendix A—Heer Bethlem’s “Overwegingen”
- Appendix B.—Table of Indulgences
- Appendix C—Relative Antiquity of the Various Stations