Artist Suzanne Damrich Paints Stations of the Cross in Memory of Parents

PRESS REGISTER
By Roy Hoffman

12 Stations of the Cross by Suzzane Damrich

ALABAMA - Suzzane Damrich is creating a series of panels depicting the Stations of the Cross, an homage to the final hours of Jesus commonly found either as painting or statues in Catholic churches, and some Protestant ones. Among the scenes are, “Jesus is Condemned to Death,” “Jesus Meets his Mother,” “Jesus is Nailed to the Cross,” and “Jesus Is Taken from the Cross and Laid in Mary’s Bosom.” Damrich’s Stations will become public at Dauphin Way United Methodist in Mobile on Sunday with a musical concert to commemorate the occasion. Damrich was surprised by their request for her to paint the Stations of the Cross. “It’s unusual that a Methodist church would choose these,” notes John Ricketts, director of music and worship and Dauphin Way. But his church, he says, has a commitment to further “the sacred arts.” And, he says, the Stations of the Cross is “not necessarily completely Catholic” either, with the Lutheran church and sometimes other denominations utilizing them. They have, he says, been part of “acts of reverence and devotion during Lent for many centuries in many denominations.” [link]