Celebrating 100 years
- Clustered Worship Sites:
Christ the King
St. Salome
St. Thomas the Apostle - Individual Worship Sites:
St. Cecilia
St. Margaret Mary - Irondequoit Catholic Communities:
Regional Mass Schedule
Regional Calendars
Irondequoit Senior Ministries
The Stations of the Cross is one of the older and most popular devotions of the Church. It reenacts and remembers by way of image, scripture and prayer the route taken by Jesus on the way to his execution.
One of the earliest record of the stations is the 5th century church of San Stefano in Bologna which attempted to recreate the holy places in Jerusalem. In an account by Fleix Fabri in 1480 there is a story about the Virgin Mary until her death followed what has been come to be known as the Via Delorosa, the route taken by Jesus to Calvary.
Fifteenth century pilgrims to the Jerusalem followed a route which was depicted by shrines known from the fourth century. The current form of the devotion stems from St. Alphonsus Liguori. The devotion reached England and the United States about the same time, the middle of the nineteenth century. Before that the devotion was primarily in the European countries of Germany and Italy and regions surrounding them.
