Note 21 — Chapter I · —The Veneration of the Holy Places

Tobler, “Topographie von Jerusalem,” considers that the name Via Dolorosa did not come into common use before the end of the sixteenth century. This however must be a mistake, for the Spanish poet Juan de la Enzina, in his “Viage de Jerusalem” (1519), speaks of the street (calle) along which our Lord dragged His cross, “which nowadays is called the street of anguish” (qu’ oy dia se dize la Cal de Amargura). At this period it was also sometimes called the Via Sancta—Holy Way.