The company, with about 130 participants, stops at 18 stations that depict the suffering of Christ. The tour starts in the St. Nicholas Church and ends after an hour and a half in the St. Walburga Church. “The distance of the Way of the Cross is equal to that which Christ would have covered in Jerusalem,” says Gilbert Vanlerberghe of Sodality.
Bishop of Bruges Lode Aerts emphasizes the connecting character: “What Jesus experienced, the suffering he underwent, that he still experiences: wars, crises, fears, people who are having a hard time that such a bridge is built between the suffering that exists today and the person of Jesus who carries it, I think that is something very beautiful.”
During Lent there was a Stations of the Cross every Friday, and even midnight on Maundy Thursday.
