Monrupino Sanctuary

Mother of the Savior

Author: Maria Candido Period; around 1794 Typology: painting, oil on copper

Baroque style altar

Assumption and Trinity

Author: Clemente del Neri Year: 1912 Typology: fresco

Jesus falls for the first time under the cross

Typology: painting, oil on panel

Angels

Author: Clemente del Neri Year: 1912 Typology: fresco

Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem

Typology: painting, oil on panel

Jesus falls the third time under the cross

Typology: painting, oil on panel During the journey Jesus was mocked and humiliated and fell three times from fatigue, under the weight of the cross.

Jesus is stripped and wine is offered to him

Typology: painting, oil on panel The condemned man is prepared by the Roman soldiers for the agony of the cross.

Jesus is nailed to the cross

Typology: painting, oil on panel Having reached his destination, Jesus is hung on the cross and finally - around three in the afternoon, tradition says - pierced with a spear by the Roman legionaries to put an end to the agony.

Jesus dies on the cross

Typology: painting, oil on panel As Jesus takes his last breath, an earthquake shakes the earth.

Jesus in Mary's arms

Typology: painting, oil on panelThis scene of such immense sorrow and sublime tenderness is meant to express above all the priestly motherhood of the uiversal Co-redemptrix Mary. Let us look at the Mother with her dead son in her arms. Jesus is the High Priest and universal Redeemer, a victim torn in body and soul.

Jesus is placed in the tomb

Typology: painting, oil on panel Sometimes a fifteenth station is added to announce the Resurrection, but usually the rite ends with the deposition of the body to then celebrate the risen Jesus at Easter.

Pontius Pilate sentences Jesus to death

Typology: painting, oil on panelThe procession begins by recalling the moment when the Sanhedrin, the court of the Jews, condemned Jesus to death for declaring himself King of the Jews and Son of God. This decision was endorsed by Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect who ruled Palestine and who, in order not to make the decision himself, delegated the responsibility for the declaration of condemnation to others. The judges also decreed that the execution would take place by crucifixion, a torture that was reserved for hardened thieves and murderers to give a long and painful death.

Jesus carries the cross on his shoulders

Typology: painting, oil on panelJesus is therefore forced to carry the heavy cross alone to the top of the Golgotha (or Calvary) hill, where he will later be crucified.

Jesus meets the Sorrowful Mother

Typology: painting, oil on panel

Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross

Typology: painting, oil on panel

Saint Veronica gives a shroud to Jesus

Typology: painting, oil on panel

Jesus falls the second time under the cross

Typology: painting, oil on panel

The Via Crucis

In the second half of the XIX century. the interior of the Sanctuary has been enriched with paintings describing the 14 stations of the Via Crucis (from the Latin, Via della Croce - also called Via Dolorosa) which reconstructs and commemorates the painful journey of Jesus Christ, his condemnation, torture and finally the killing on Golgotha.

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Angels

Author: Clemente del Neri Year: 1912 Typology: fresco

Trinity

Author: E. Germoun Year: 19th century Typology: painting, oil on panel

St. Rocco

Author: E. Germoun Year: 19th century Typology: painting, oil on panel

Jesus and Apostles

Author: Titta Gori Year: 20th century Typology: painting, oil on panel

Moses with the tables of the law

Typology: sculpture

The Four Evangelists

Author: Clemente del Neri Typology: fresco

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