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There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome, who also followed Him and ministered to Him when He was in Galilee, and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem. (Mark 15:40-41)

Veronica church where Veronica wiped the Lord Jesus Christ's face with her handkerchief. It is said that the Lord Jesus Christ's face was wiped by Veronica with the handkerchief in this place, but Veronica doesn't appear in the description of the Gospels. However, the handkerchief is kept in the Catholic cathedral as a holy relic, which is suppose to be used by Velonica to wipe the Lord Jesus Christ's face.

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward. (Mark 9:41)

THe place where Jesus Christ stumbled and fell for the second time. In the movie tilled "Ben-Hur", there is a scene where the hero gives a cup of water to the Lord Jesus Christ who stumbles and falls on the Via Dolorosa. Like these words of the Bible, the disease of the hero's family was completely healed. A chair is put beside the 7th station and someone always sits on it as if to keep watch.

And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. "For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!' "Then they will begin 'to say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!" ' "For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?" (Luke 23:27-31)

There is the abbey of the St. Haralanbos Greece Orthodox Church in the 8th station. The cross carved on the wall. After the Lord Jesus Christ was hung on the cross, Jews in Jerusalem rose in rebellion against the oppression of Roman Empire in 70 A.D. But Jerusalem was surrounded by the powerful Roman army, and finally the riot was suppressed. It occured without relation to Christianity. However as a result, Jerusalem and the second sanctuary was destroyed thoroughly. It was as if the Lord Jesus Christ's prophecy had been accomplished.

Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'He said, "I am the King of the Jews." (John 19:19-21)

We see "INRI" written in the nameplate on the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ in Europian churches. It repesents the initial letters of "Jesus of Nazareth, Jew's king" in Latin.