Devotees practise the 14 Stations of the Cross, pray the rosary, and light candles at each stop while climbing towards the peak where a 40m cross, sometimes lighted, is visible from due north to Kalibo and the nearby sea.
The Stations of the Cross were painted by G. W. Weis in 1854 according to drawings of Führichových, while the great fresco above the entrance to the sacristy, which depicts the Litany, was created in 1766 by J. Steter.
One of its more famous features is a highly elaborate set of Stations of the Cross.
The interior contains beautiful sculptures including 14 Stations of the Cross.
He is additionally known for his sculptural design representing the fifteen Stations of the Cross in Brentwood Cathedral.
Stations of the Cross or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis: a series of artistic representations, depicting Christ's crucifixion, death and resurrection.
While not being able to participate in person, he did view the Friday Stations of the Cross via television coverage by the CBC.
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Benediction is often employed as a conclusion to other services, e.g. Vespers, Compline, the Stations of the Cross, etc., but it is also still more generally treated as a rite complete in itself.
Every Good Friday, hundreds of local people climb to the top of the head in a Good Friday procession marking the stations of the Cross, as they go along with the final station being held at the holy year cross.
In the Scriptural Way of the Cross introduced in 1991 by Pope John Paul II as a version of the Stations of the Cross, and performed each Good Friday at the Colosseum in Rome, the fourth station is the Denial of Peter.
The main building is granite and limestone, with exterior and elaborate interior sculptural work by Corrado Parducci, including a lectern and Stations of the Cross, and hand-painted murals by Beatrice Wilczynski.
Common examples of Catholic devotions include the Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Face of Jesus, the various scapulars, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Seven Sorrows of Mary, novenas to various saints, pilgrimages and devotions to the Blessed Sacrament, and the veneration of saintly images such as among Santeros, etc.
Highlights include the roof beam, the tryptich above the high altar, the Lady Chapel, the shrines of Our Lady and of St. Barnabas, the baptistry, the Nativity painting by Norbert Chapdelaine, the Stations of the Cross, the 1897 Casavant Frères organ, and the stained glass windows.
The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were almost a Crass hallmark), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Bond Street tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them.
Other notable works are the fifteen Stations of the Cross in St Mary's RC Church, Leyland, and a sculpture entitled 'Splitting the Atom' (depicting the creation of the atomic bomb) at Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire.
Authors and the apocalyptic The Earth Is Dead - an evening of one-acts under the collective title Ratsfeet, were the first Porterfield plays offered by the theatre, followed in very short order with a full-length play Universal Nigger (1969), which told the story of a modern-day African-American Christ, following his movements through the stations of the cross.
The Stations of the Cross are timber reliefs (1990/1) by Stephen Foster, which Pevsner & Williamson considered of high quality.
There is a stained glass window of the Resurrection by Marcello Avelani, bronze doors and ceramic saints by Angelo Biancini, mosaic Stations of the Cross by Giovanni Haynal, a cruzifix by Umberto Bartoli, a 16th-century Madonna and Child, a Last Supper by Giovanni Stradano and the Apparition of the Sacred Heart by Antonio Ciseri (1880).
Żukotyński's work can also be found in the state of Indiana where his stations of the cross can be seen at St. Hedwig's in South Bend, Indiana, as well as his frescoes in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.