George Harrison Xanthis, who plays the apostle John, says that filming in Matera has helped his performance by immersing him ...

Jesus takes up his Cross; Jesus falls for the first time; Jesus meets his Mother Mary; Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the Cross; Veronica wipes the face of Jesus; Jesus falls for the second ...

That's a departure for the Christian Drama School of New Jersey — which normally casts a boy in the Jesus role for its annual "Cross Carry," a Good Friday tradition for 23 years. More formidably ...

As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and ...

Volunteers took turns carrying a 7-foot-tall wooden cross on Oxmoor Road, getting a small sense of what Jesus endured on Good Friday. “It felt like a heavy burden,” said Aidan Pearson ...

In the Fifth Station, Jesus allows Simon of Cyrene to help him carry the cross; and in the Sixth Station, he allows Veronica to wipe his face. I don’t think there’s a coincidence in Simon or ...

The Christian Drama School of New Jersey says 15-year-old Maddie Harmon was the only one to play Jesus and carry the heavy 12-foot cross for more than two miles. The school says they just didn't ...

It’s a Homewood tradition that dates back more than 30 years, but it’s part of a larger tradition that dates back 2,000 years. The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in ...

in a procession re-enacting Jesus Christ's carrying of the cross. It was the first year for a small group. Forty-one years later, Leon again participated in the annual procession. With him were ...

Community members started walking through the Town of Louisa together at 7:30 a.m., and shared opportunities to hold and carry a cross like Jesus did before his crucifixion. Participants also had ...