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
Illustrious Brotherhood of the Holy Cross of the Redeemer and the Immaculate Conception, his Mother (Salamanca) the Roman Catholic Church and the "Estatutos" o constitutions of the own brotherhood. The brotherhood is known as the "Vera Cruz" or "True Cross" because the institution owns a relic consisting in physical remnants which, by a Christian tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. The most popular activities of the "Vera Cruz" are the Holy Week processions. The "Vera Cruz" is the oldest brotherhood in Salamanca so are some of its processions. The "Vera Cruz" celebrates four processions during Holy Week and another one during the celebrations of the Corpus Christi feast. The