Images of WWII - Jack Burgin’s Photograph Album Photo No. 152

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Roger Marsh of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Jack Burgin and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

The Via Dolorosa or “Way of Sorrow”, winding along the narrow streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, leads from the Ecce Homo Convent to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. This is the traditional route Jesus followed bearing His cross from Pilate’s Judgement Hall in Antonia, to Calvary Hill or Golgotha, the site of the crucifixion.

Along this route are the “Fourteen Stations of the Cross”.
Each station marks an event of sacred memory, with chapels for reflection, convents and monasteries of devotion, and the sacred basilica for commemoration — along Christendom’s most hallowed road.

The courtyard of Omariye College is crowded each Friday afternoon when Franciscans start the devotion of the Way of the Cross.
The minaret traditionally named “Antonia Tower”, recalls the site of the Roman fortress where Jesus was condemned. On leave in Palestine September 1943

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