The stations of the cross
by Herbert Thurston
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About this eBook
- Author
- Thurston, Herbert, 1856-1939
- Title
- The Stations of the Cross : an account of their history and devotional purpose
- Original Publication
- London: Burns & Oates, 1914.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements
- Subject
- Stations of the Cross
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 79316
- Release Date
- August 8, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Stations of the Cross
- 2.The Preface
- 3.The Contents
- 4.The List of Illustrations
- 5.Chapter I —The Veneration of the Holy Places
- 6.Chapter II —The Beginnings of the Via Crucis
- 7.Chapter III —The Earliest Stations and their Sequence
- 8.Chapter IV —The “Seven Falls”
- 9.Chapter V —The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jan Pascha
- 10.Chapter VI —The “Via Dolorosa” at Jerusalem from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day
- 11.Chapter VII —The Devotional Aspect of the Stations
- 12.Chapter VIII —The Stations in Modern Times
- 13.Appendix A —Heer Bethlem’s “Overwegingen”
- 14.Appendix B .—TABLE of INDULGENCES
- 15.Appendix C —Relative Antiquity of the Various Stations
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