Next Sunday, the Diocesan Via Sagra will be held on the Way of the Cross, Ghammar Hill, opposite Ta' Pinu Sanctuary in Gozo, starting at 4.00pm.

It will be led by H.L. Mgr Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo. At the end of the Via Crucis, which will be broadcast live on Radju Marija, the Bishop will give a short message, followed by the Eucharistic Benediction.

Everyone is invited to join the walk next Sunday, the 13th of March,

Via Crucis Ta' Ghammar Hill

The Blessed Virgin of Ta' Pinu had asked Frangisk Portelli to advocate devotion towards the hidden wound on Christ's shoulder caused by the heavy wooden cross. Because of this, after the end of World War II, a small number of devotees began to make a repentance walk up the steep path to the top of Ghammar Hill, situated opposite Ta' Pinu Sanctuary.

A proposal was made for the transformation of the hillside into a Via Crucis thus making it possible to pilgrim, to walk uphill and meditate the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord.

The original models of the statues were wrought by Alfred Camilleri Cauchi and where commissioned by the rector Mgr. Lawrence Portelli in 1970, to the Italian Firm Tiemistocle Sarti, under the direction of the artist Gualtiero Luisi.

Mgr. Benedict Camilleri who succeeded Mgr. Portelli as rector of the Basilica on the 15th of June 1970, took a keen interest in the setting up of the Via Crucis, widening the path leading from Ta' Pinu Parvis to the hilltop of Ghammar, the plantation of tress alongside the way and the open-air amphitheatre on the summit of the hill.

Now days during the Holy Week, a meditation of the Way of the Cross is organised on the Ghammar Hill and is led by H.E. Mgr Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo, together with the participation of faithful from the diocese of Gozo and also from that of Malta.

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