The pious practice of the Via Crucis will be held in St Peter's Papal Basilica in the Vatican starting on Friday February 16th at 4pm and for every Friday of the season of Lent. The first celebration will take place before the hourly Eucharistic Celebration.
For the occasion, the works "Passion of Christ" by the artist Gaetano Previati (Ferrara 1852- Lavagna 1920), kept in the Vatican Museums, will be installed in the transept and nave of the Basilica: 14 oil paintings on canvas depicting the Stations of the Cross. The works will be temporarily placed in the Basilica, in collaboration and synergy with the Fabbrica and the Vatican Museums, to allow, also through images, meditation on the mysteries of the Stations of the Cross during the Fridays of Lent.
The Lenten Stations in the Basilica will be celebrated with the usual penitential procession, Sunday Mass and exposition of the Relics of the Lord's Passion. The first Station will be celebrated on Saturday 24 February at 4.45pm; the second, which corresponds to the fifth Sunday of Lent, on 17 March, also at 4.45pm.
