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Pope Benedict XVI to lead Good Friday Via Crucis in Rome

EARTHtimes.org
Posted : Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:06:00GMT
Author : DPA

Rome- Pope Benedict XVI planned to lead Friday evening's traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) around Rome's Coliseum, his second since his 2005 election as head of the Roman Catholic Church. Also called Stations of the Cross and Via Dolorosa, the Via Crucis candle-lit procession recalls Jesus Christ's death by crucifixion.

Similar ceremonies take place in Jerusalem and around the Catholic world, but the one in Rome is the most famous and is to be broadcast live in more than 40 countries.

This year's meditations will include a testimony from Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish intellectual who died in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in 1943.
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 9:11 AM