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
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