The EC explains that the object of the Via Crucis “is to help the faithful to make in the spirit, so to speak, a pilgrimage to the main scenes of the sufferings and death of Christ, and this has become one of the Catholic devotions.” More popular”.
The Via Crucis is performed “by passing from one station to another, reciting certain prayers at each and with devout meditation on the various incidents in turn.”
The EC specifies that the Via Crucis originates in the Holy Land, specifically in the Via Dolorosa of Jerusalem, which “was marked with reverence from the earliest times and has been the goal of pious pilgrims since the time of Constantine.”