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The Via Dolorosa ( Latin: "Way of Grief," "Way of Sorrows," "Way of Suffering" or simply "Painful Way"; Hebrew: ויה דולורוזה; Arabic: طريق الآلام) is a street within the Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the path that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. The winding route from the Antonia Fortress west to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre—a distance of about 600 metres (2,000 feet)—is a celebrated place of Christian pilgrimage. The current route has been established since the 18th century, replacing various earlier versions. It is today marked by nine Stations of the Cross; there have been fourteen stations since the late 15th century, with the remaining five stations being inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Via Dolorosa is a street in the Old City of Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the path Jesus walked on the way to his Crucifixion.
By extension, the term is also used, infrequently, to refer to a road or series of roads connecting memorials to the dead, especially war memorials.
Via Dolorosa' may also refer to:
- Via Dolorosa (play), a Broadway play by David Hare
- Via Dolorosa (album), an album by Ophthalamia
- "Via Dolorosa" (song), a song by Sandi Patty from Songs from the Heart
- "Via Dolorsa", a song by Matthew Good from Arrows of Desire
Via Dolorosa is a play by British dramatist David Hare, in the form of a monologue. It deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Hare's own 1997 journey through Israel and Palestine, and the 33 people whom he met.
Hare premiered the work in London in September 1998, in his solo acting debut, in collaboration with director Stephen Daldry and set designer Ian McNeil. The first US performance was on 18 March 1999, again with Daldry as director. Excerpts of the play were released on CD. The work was later produced for television. Hare performed the work again in July 2002 at the Duchess Theatre, London.
In the context of this play, Daldry has characterized Hare's attitude to the Israel-Palestine conflict as follows:
"What David Hare is unneutral about - what he's deeply against - is extremism. Here it's the extremism he found, and brilliantly acts out, between warring political-philosophical-religious diehards within each populace, Israeli and Palestinian alike -- 'people who seek religious justification for excessive behavior on either side.'"
Hare received the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for his performance of Via Dolorosa.
In May 1999, Steven Greenstein filed a US civil complaint against the Royal Court Theatre that alleged that Via Dolorosa had unlawfully taken ideas for the text and structure from an unproduced play by Greenstein, Voices From the Holy...and Not So Holy Land. The lawsuit did not name Hare specifically. In April 2000, Judge Denny Chin of the Federal District Court in Manhattan dismissed the lawsuit and asserted that the plays by Greenstein and Hare were separate entities.
Via Dolorosa is the second album by Swedish black metal band Ophthalamia. It was released in 1995 through Avantgarde Music.
Usage examples of "via dolorosa".
All the crippled pilgrims in the Via Dolorosa, the black-hatted Hasidim, the Greek priests, Armenian monks, the men at prayer on patterned carpets in the mosquesthese streams of belief made me uneasy.
She was out of breath and panting a little by the time she reached the third Station of the Via Dolorosa.
What plans he has for the beast with which he ridiculed the Via Dolorosa will be revealed only as he invades deeper into God's own territory.
What plans he has for the beast with which he ridiculed the Via Dolorosa will be revealed only as he invades deeper into God’.
A big, fat, juicy, huge-nostriled beast so overfed that it will be too lethargic to throw me, should I choose to ride it through the Via Dolorosa in the Holy City.
Slowly she returned down the via dolorosa of the terrace-path, the walk where she and Allan had so often and so gaily trodden.
Nine out of ten of them trod a via dolorosa leading inexorably to an appointment with the guillotine or a premature pauper's grave.
Vanished were the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock, El Aqsa Mosque, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Via Dolorosa.
The car screeched into King Solomon Street, followed the Via Dolorosa to Stephen's Gate.
Mary lived near the Via Dolorosa, a small apartment above the wall of the Old City.
She was well aware that directly Mrs Neale received her money she went round the corner to drink ardent spirits in a mean and musty public-house - the unavoidable station on the VIA DOLOROSA of her life.