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.

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.