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Definition of Stations of the Cross
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary.
Generic synonyms: Devotion, Series
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Definition of Stations of the Cross
1. Noun. (Christianity) Collectively, the series of icons or statues, (normally 14) in a church which depict the last days of Jesus and his crucifixion. ¹
2. Noun. A religious ceremony based on prayer at each of these icons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stations Of The Cross
Literary usage of Stations of the Cross
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Stations of the Cross: This practise, familiar to every one who enters the Roman
Catholic Church, is of modern origin. It is said that Alvar of Cordova (qv) ..."
2. The Externals of the Catholic Church: Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals by John Francis Sullivan (1917)
"CHAPTER XXIX THE Stations of the Cross IN every Catholic church there are pictured
representations of various events in the Passion of our Blessed Lord. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Way of the Cross (Stations of the Cross, VIA CRUCIS, VIA DOLOROSA).—These names
are used to signify either a series of pictures or tableaux representing ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"But by the word stations are more usually understood the "Stations of the Cross,"
a very popular devotional exercise which is in use throughout the Catholic ..."
5. Church Law: Being a Concise Dictionary of Statutes, Canons, Regulations, and by Benjamin Whitehead (1892)
"Painted windows containing representations of our Lord, and generally illustrating
Scripture subjects, are permitted; but the " stations of the Cross " are ..."
6. Modern Decisions on Ritual and Kindred Subjects by George John Talbot (1894)
"D.—THE "Stations of the Cross." It was one of the complaints in Clifton v.
Ridsdale 3 that the respondent had put up in his church ..."
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