6th Station, Via Dolorosa

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West of Al Wad St along the western stretch of Via Dolorosa is the 6th Station, marked by a brown wooden door on the left (south) and a carving on the wall. This is where Veronica is believed to have wiped Jesus’s face of blood with a cloth.

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