Only the diagonal pole. More than enough: the studies carried out on the Holy Shroud show that it could weigh sixty pounds! Jesus is alone, as everyone who’s carrying a cross. It is an internal, deep loneliness that can be only intensified by the crowd. And Jesus already has the road marked out, with a precise goal: Mount Calvary. And yet… Jesus, what are you doing?! Are you carrying or hugging the cross ?! Is that Calvary a destiny or a very free and extraordinary choice of love? On the ascent, almost mute bollards, three dark figures. The sign of the three falls. The appointment with the three types of human degradation: physical, mental and ethical.

Armando Cattaneo