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
The Lost Tomb of Jesus Amos Kloner, now professor of archaeology at Israel's Bar-Ilan University. Kloner dissociated himself from the claims made in the documentary. He said it was incorrect to call it "never before reported information" and that he had published all the details in the journal "Antiqot" in 1996. He had not said it was the tomb of Jesus' family. "I think it is very unserious [sic] work. I do scholarly work…," Kloner said. "[This film] is all nonsense." Six of the nine remaining ossuaries bear inscriptions. "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" posits that three of those carry the names of figures from