Stations of the Cross: An Account of Their History and Devotional Purpose (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Stations of the Cross: An Account of Their History and Devotional Purpose<br><br>Some Dutch books relating to the stations - Bethlem''s Medita tions on the Passion with distances - The Nuremberg Ghostly Way of 1521 - Prevalence of the practice of erecting Stations - The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jan Pas cha the Carmelite - Description of the book - Various editions and translations - The proper Way of the Cross -adrichomius and his indebtedness to Pascha - Origin of the triple fall in our present system of Stations - Impossi bilit in the sixteenth century of any public exercise of the ay of the Cross at Jerusalem - The initiative conse quently did not come from the East but from Europe especially from the Netherlands - Practice of the Stations in an Antwerp convent.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.