Stations of the Cross Stabat Mater, composed in the 13th century by Franciscan Jacopone da Todi. James Matthew Wilson's poetic sequence, "The Stations of the Cross", is written in the same meter as da Todi's poem. Dimitris Lyacos' third part of the Poena Damni trilogy, The First Death, is divided in fourteen sections in order to emphasise the "Via Dolorosa" of its marooned protagonist during his ascent on the mount of the island which constitutes the setting of the work. These fourteen sites along the Via Dolorosa are where the events of the Stations of the Cross happened, according to tradition. These 14 stops
Via Dolorosa performance of some other activity. In the (then) famous late-15th-century depiction of the "Seven Falls", by Adam Krafft, there is only one of the "Falls" that is actually on the subject of Jesus stumbling under the weight of the cross, the remaining "Falls" being either encounters with people on the journey, the crucifixion itself, or the removal of the dead body from the cross. The first fall is represented by the current third station, located at the west end of the eastern fraction of the Via Dolorosa, adjacent to the 19th-century "Polish Catholic Chapel"; this chapel was constructed by the