Stations Of The Cross Definition

A devotion consisting of prayers and meditations before each of 14 crosses or images set up in a church or along a path commemorating the events of the Passion of Jesus.

A series of fourteen pictures, statues, etc., as along the walls of a church, depicting the stages of Jesus' final sufferings and of his death and burial: a prayer is said at each station in succession as a devotional exercise.

The 14 crosses or images of this devotion.

The devotional exercise itself.