Station III: Jesus falls under the weight of the Cross.
Picture 31: Photo shot at the Polish Catholic Chapel third station, where Jesus fell for the first time
Picture 32: The visitors of Via Dolorosa
Station IV: Mary sees Jesus with the Cross.
The New Testament makes no mention of meeting between Jesus, during the walk to his crucifixion, but popular tradition introduces one. The fourth station, the location of a nineteenth-century Armenian Orthodox oratory,commemorates the events of this tradition; a lunette, over the entrance to the chapel, references by means of bas-relief carved by the Polish artist Zieliensky.
Station V: Simon of Cyrene is made to take the Cross.
Pic. 33: Station V: Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus
The fifth station refers to the biblical episode in which Simon of Cyrene takes Jesus' cross, and carries it for him. [Mat 27: 32; Mark 15: 21; Luke 23: 26]
Although this narrative in included in the three Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John appears to flatly contradict it, emphasising that Jesus carried his own Cross;in the Gospel of John, Simon of Cyrene is not mentioned at all. The current traditional site for the station is located at the east end of the western fraction of the Via Dolorosa, adjacent to the Chapel of Simon of Cyrene, a Franciscan construction built in 1895.
Station VI: Veronica wipes Jesus face.
A medieval Roman Catholic legend viewed a specific piece of cloth, known as the veil of Veronica, as having been supernaturally imprinted with Jesus' image, by physical contact with Jesus' face. By metathesis of the Latin words Vera icon [meaning true image] in to Veronica, it came to be said that the Veil of Veronica had gained its image when a Saint Veronica encountered Jesus, and wiped the sweat from his face with the cloth; no element of this legend is present in the Bible. The veil of Veronica relates to a before Crucifixion image, and is distinct from the post-Crucifixion Holy Face image, often related to the Shroud of Turin.
Station VII: Jesus falls a second time.
Station VIII: Jesus speaks to the women of Jerusalem.
The Eight Station commemorates an episode described by the Gospel of Luke, alone among the canonical gospels, in which Jesus encounters pious women on His journey, and is able to stop and give a sermon. And said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children...[Luke 23: 28-31].
The present Eight Station is adjacent to the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Charalampus; it is marked by the word Nika [a Greek word meaning Victory] carved into the wall, and an embossed cross.
Pic. 34: Jesus speaks to the women of Jerusalem.
Station IX: Jesus falls a third time.
It is not on the Via Dolorosa, instead being located at the entrance of Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery.
Pic. 35: Location where Jesus falls a third time on the entrance to Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery.
Pic. 36: Photo shot of Me, my spouse, Conny and friends walked on Via Dolorosa.
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