Stations of the Cross be conducted personally by the faithful, making their way from one station to another and saying the prayers, or by having an officiating celebrant move from cross to cross while the faithful make the responses. The stations themselves must consist of, at the very least, fourteen wooden crosses, pictures alone do not suffice, and they must be blessed by someone with the authority to erect stations. Pope John Paul II led an annual public prayer of the Stations of the Cross at the Roman Colosseum on Good Friday. Originally, the pope himself carried the cross from station to station, but
Paul of the Cross surmounted by a white cross, and in the heart was written "Passion of Jesus Christ". On seeing it, he heard these words spoken to him: "This is to show how pure the heart must be that bears the holy name of Jesus graven upon it". The first name Paul received for his community was ""the Poor of Jesus""; later they came to be known as the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, or the Passionists. With the encouragement of his bishop, who clothed him in the black habit of a hermit, Paul wrote the rule of his new community