Via crucis
McMahon, Irene & McMahon, Franklin
VIA CMU CIS JERUSALEM TODAY Text: Irene McMahon Drawings: Franklin McMahon At dawn on Good Friday, the cocks crow and there is a low murmur of prayers as Christians move slowly through...
...VIA CMU CIS JERUSALEM TODAY Text: Irene McMahon Drawings: Franklin McMahon At dawn on Good Friday, the cocks crow and there is a low murmur of prayers as Christians move slowly through the streets of the ancient walled city of Jerusalem...
...Streets now follow the plan laid out by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the second century over ruins of the city in which Christ suffered...
...It is faith that dominates here...
...During Holy Week, 1987, Irene and Franklin McMahon traveled to the Holy Land to follow pilgrims on the Way of the Cross...
...not archaeology...
...To meditate on Christ's crucifixion, the crux of Christianity, gives meaning to Everyman's cross...
...They had seen the agonies of their crucified brethren lining the roadsides of Galilee...
...Passions of conquest have destroyed Jerusalem so many times since the first Good Friday that it is now virtually impossible to trace the exact route Christ carried his cross...
...Patrick's Church in Lake Forest, Illinois...
...Helena discovered the True Cross, and it was her son, Emperor Constantine I, who dedicated the first Church of the Holy Sepulcher...
...It was not an abstraction when Christ told his apostles to "take up your cross...
...a rekindling of faith and compassion that is catholic in the universal sense...
...This is what they witnessed in text and drawings...
...Jews were crucified by the thousands...
...Their prayers express a human longing to relive the Passion of Christ...
...Sites of today's Stations of the Cross were established in the fourth century when St...
...Crucifixion was a Persian torture used by the Romans who executed slaves, criminals, and the political opposition...
...Along the way ancient whispers of the past evoke profound mysteries...
...14: 27 March 1992 Commonweal...
...Each person brings his own experience to this place, each chooses his own space: for Jews it is the Western Wall, for Moslems the Dome of the Rock, and for Christians it is the Via Dolorosa, a labyrinthine passage through the old city...
...The drawings stand as full-color ceramic tile stations at St...
...More than 1 900 years after the death of Christ, devout pilgrims, and curious tourists, from Chicago and London, Frankfurt and Addis Ababa, from Tokyo and Sydney, set out on the path of Christ's dolorous journey to his death on Golgotha, a transhistorical journey that has changed the character of man...
Vol. 119 • March 1992 • No. 6
