This devotion spread throughout Europe and was promulgated by the Franciscan friars in the 14th and 15th centuries. Eventually, the Stations of the Cross became an important catechetical tool ...

along with the Via Crucis or the Way of the Cross. Instead of the usual seven churches, Filipinos during the Spanish period visited 14 churches on foot, reciting all 14 stations at each church.

So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. that we may faithfully bear our crosses each day. Eighth Station ...