Bearing Witness: Artworks
The 14 woodcut prints that comprise Margaret Adams Parker’s magnificent Stations of the Cross hang in St. Michael’s Parish Hall. Available to view throughout Lent, the framed woodcuts afford viewers opportunities to walk the “Way of the Cross” in-person.
Bearing Witness: Stations of the Cross
Organized in order, the full titles of the 14 Stations are as follows:
Station I – Jesus Is Condemned to Death (Ecce homo*)
Station II – Jesus Takes Up His Cross
Station III – Jesus Falls the First Time
Station IV – Jesus Meets His Grieving Mother
Station V – The Cross Is Laid on Simon of Cyrene
Station VI – A Woman Wipes the Face of Jesus
Station VII – Jesus Falls a Second Time
Station VIII – Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Station IX – Jesus Falls a Third Time
Station X – Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
Station XI – Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
Station XII – Jesus Dies on the Cross
Station XIII – Jesus Is Placed In the Arms of His Mother (Pieta)
Station XIV – Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
* The Latin words Ecce homo, or “Behold the Man”, are the words Pontius Pilate used in the Vulgate translation of John’s Gospel when he presented the yet-to-be-crucified Jesus — scourged, bound, and crowned with thorns — to a hostile crowd.
