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• via dolorosa
  via dolorosa

  noun

  Christ's route to Golgotha.
• Via Dolorosa
  Via Dolorosa

  noun

  the route followed by Christ from the place of his condemnation to Calvary for his crucifixion

via dolorosa

American  

[dol-uh-roh-suh, doh-luh-] / ˌdɒl əˈroʊ sə, ˌdoʊ lə- /

noun

1. (initial capital letters) Christ's route to Golgotha.

2. a trying, painful, or sorrowful course or series of experiences.

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Via Dolorosa British  

/ ˈviːə ˌdɒləˈrəʊsə /

noun

1. the route followed by Christ from the place of his condemnation to Calvary for his crucifixion

2. an arduous or distressing course or experience

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Etymology

Origin of via dolorosa

From Latin via dolōrōsa literally, “sorrowful road”

Example Sentences

Holy Week, which culminates with the celebration of Easter Sunday, recalls Jesus Christ’s rejection and journey down the via dolorosa, the sorrowful road, on the way to crucifixion.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2017

Israeli political consultant Ron Werber calls Peres' indomitable path in politics "a via dolorosa" that has led through triumph to final humiliation and grave disappointment.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knows that the temptations on the brothers' via dolorosa will be as familiar to a late-show viewer as those that befell Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take but one instance out of the many that crossed my via dolorosa of the anguish inflicted on the mothers of the poor.

From The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis by Hopkins, Ellice

The way to the Kingdom of God always has been and always will be a via dolorosa.

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter