00:00Here in Rome's Colosseum, where gladiators once battled to the death.
00:04Legend has it that Christians were also thrown to the lions here.
00:09And that is why this monument has become an important symbol of Christian martyrdom.
00:14Every year, for decades since the 1960s, popes have been coming here on Good Friday
00:20for the Way of the Cross ceremony.
00:22That is when they followed the route of Jesus Christ,
00:25for when Pontius Pilate gave him to the crowd as he carried the cross through the streets of Jerusalem
00:30to his death by crucifixion.
00:33Last year, Pope Francis I was unable to come because he was very close to his death.
00:38This year, Pope Leo will be carrying the cross himself,
00:42the first pope to do so in decades, through all 14 stations of the cross.
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