Via Crusis in Cebu
March 30, 2009 · Posted in Philippine Festivals · Comment
As a Lenten season is fast approaching, Via Crusis is one way to repent ourselves. It is a Lenten movement happens every April 1 where devotees from Cebu City and its neighboring cities and towns do their penitential procession through cities the Station of the Cross built on 12 hectares of rolling hills. Via Crusis is a Latin for The Way of the Cross, or sometimes called The Way of Sorrows refers to the portrayal of the passion of the Christ and the devotion commemorating it. The life-size statues of the 14 Stations of the Cross have been patterned after the Way of the Cross in Lourdes, France.
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