11.   It includes pilgrims carrying heavy crosses or marching on their knees as penitence or in gratitude for blessings they fervently believe she has bestowed upon them.

12.   Jaime carried a cross of flowers.

13.   Just steps from the Old City path on which Jesus carried the cross, a bishop tells of a recent sparsely attended funeral of an elderly parishioner.

14.   Racers will carry wooden crosses to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus.

15.   Simon, whom the Gospels record as a bystander, carries the cross.

16.   Somebody has to carry the cross for every woman who plays or wants to play or who never had a chance to play.

17.   The first part of the hotel you see is a battered, wooden door along the Via Dolorosa, the path that tradition holds Jesus carried the cross.

18.   A teacher from Sarajevo and a Rwandan mother will be among those helping the pope carry the cross this year.

19.   A teacher at a multi-ethnic school in Bosnia and four Italians also carried the cross, which was returned to the pope for the final station.

20.   As I touch her bracelet, I know Julia too understands that there are some people, like us, who carry heavy crosses silently.