During Lent many of us will pray the 14 Stations of the Cross, especially on Good Friday. They are a popular devotion taking us from Pontius Pilate’s praetorium to the burial of Christ in the tomb. Tradition holds that Our Lady regularly visited the scenes of her son’s passion in Jerusalem. The early Christian followers kept up this tradition. After the Emperor Constantine legalised Christianity in AD 313, his mother, Saint Helena (AD 248 to 330), was given the task of locating some of the relics of our Christian tradition. After spending a full year in Jerusalem, Helena returned to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics. As part of her stay in Jerusalem, she erected various “stations” within the city that marked important events in the life of Jesus. Saint Jerome (342 to 420), who was living in Bethlehem towards the latter stages in his life, witnessed how crowds of pilgrims from various regions visited the holy places of Our Lord and especially re-living the way of the cross.