Christ carrying the cross
The Calvary indicates a portion of the Passion of Jesus Christ . It is described in the New Testament in Joh 19.17 EU , Mt 27.31–32 EU , Mk 15.20-21 EU and Lk 23.26–32 EU . The Synoptic Gospels mention Simon of Cyrene as a cross bearer; the Gospel of John only mentions Jesus as the one who carried the instrument of suffering - the cross - to Golgotha , to the place of the crucifixion .
history
The Way of the Cross as a representation of the Passion of Christ with fourteen stations developed in the 17th century with the Franciscans . Pope Clement XII. recognized in 1731 with his breve instructions on the way in which one should hold the Way of the Cross, this form of the Way of the Cross recognized as canonical and granted indulgences . Many Franciscan monasteries and monastery churches have now built the ways of the cross according to this model. The stations of carrying the cross go from the 2nd station Jesus takes the cross on his shoulders to the 9th station Jesus falls under the cross for the third time .
Visual arts
- Christ Carrying the Cross , painted by Raphael (around 1514–1517)
- Christ Carrying the Cross , painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1564)
literature
- Heinrich Laag / Géza Jászai, Jesus carrying the cross , in: Lexikon der Christian Ikonographie , Freiburg 1970, Vol. 2, Sp. 650–653.
