From Jesus’ fall with the cross, to a woman wiping his face with a cloth, the Catholic Church’s 15 stations of the cross demonstrate the many facets of Christ’s road to his crucifixion and Resurrection.

The stations that hang along walls within Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church hold special meaning, especially during the Lenten season. The stations are celebrated with prayer every Friday during Lent at 7 p.m.

The Rev. Stanley Deresienski, director of pastoral care and evangelization for Edmundite Missions, said the depictions celebrate the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

“Since very few people can go to the Holy Land, the whole reason behind the stations are so they can experience the momentous places of Jesus,” Deresienski said. “Local churches have erected these stations so they can experience and connect with events of (the) life of Jesus; he allowed himself to experience, so we could no longer be afraid to experience death as the end … but eternity.”

According to literature, during the Turkish occupation of the Holy Land in the Middle Ages, pilgrims were prevented from visiting its sacred sites. The custom arose of making replicas of those holy places, where the faithful might come to pray. The “Stations of the Way of the Cross” were imitations of the “stations,” or stopping places of prayer on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem.

Inside the church, intricately carved and painted plaster depictions align the walls.

“They’re 150 years old,” Rev. Stephen Hornat said. “They’re very well preserved, I believe they were made in Italy.”

With many different official representations of the stations, Deresienski said the stations are a way to experience what Jesus did.

“The first station, he’s standing before a crowd (before Pontius Pilate) and the second station he accepts the cross, the third, he falls for the first time. Each one of the stations has special meaning for all of us,” Deresienski said. “During cross moments in our life, it’s not about the falling but the getting up — my God, help us to get up … help us see Jesus’ way of the cross so we can see resurrection.”

The stations include Jesus being condemned to death by Pontius Pilate; Jesus accepting his cross; Jesus falling the first time; Jesus meeting his mother; Jesus being helped by Simon of Cyrene; Jesus’ face being wiped by a woman named Veronica; Jesus falling the second time; Jesus meeting the women of Jerusalem; Jesus falling the third time; Jesus being stripped of his garments; Jesus being nailed to the cross; Jesus dying on the cross; Jesus being taken down from the cross; Jesus being placed in the tomb and the Resurrection.