STATIONS OF THE CROSS


Meaning of STATIONS OF THE CROSS in English

Usage: often capitalized S&C

1. : a series of 14 (as in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches) or more (as in the Eastern Orthodox Church) images or pictures that symbolize scenes of suffering in the successive stages of Christ's passion and are usually located in a church or on the road to a church or shrine

2. : a devotional exercise of a church in which a worshiper pauses before each of the stations of the cross, meditates, and recites appropriate prayers

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