Weeping woman

Weeping women are depicted in the Eighth Station of the Cross "Jesus Calms the Weeping Women". Although it was prohibited by law to express sympathy in public to the man who was being taken to crucifixion, many women who saw Jesus going to meet his disgraceful death could not help weeping. Jesus told them: ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. My work down here is almost done – soon I will be going to my Father’. The iconography presents a few holy women who were present at the Crucifixion and Burial: Mary the mother, Ruth the sister, Salome the mother of John, Mary the mother’s sister, Mary Magdalene and Rebecca