Note 58 — Chapter III · —The Earliest Stations and their Sequence

Curiously enough this stone with crosses—“lapis cum crucibus,” as Wey called it—in the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, seems to drop out of sight in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is clearly shown in Breydenbach’s woodcut (c. 1487), copied on p. 28, where the pilgrims are seen kissing it. Not only Wey but Fabri asserts that there were many crosses on the stone (see p. 29 above). Yet many other pilgrims state that it was a small stone marked with only one cross. See e.g. M. Tschudi, 1519, “Reyss,” p. 191.