Sacred stories
The last supper
A Passover meal which literally became the last meal taken by Christ with his apostles, the night before his Passion. Through this meal, Christ instituted the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood.
Nicodemus
An influential Pharisee who came by night to hear Jesus' teachings. He defended Jesus when the other Pharisees attacked him, and finally became an open disciple of Jesus after the Crucifixion.
Matthew
Born in Palestine sometime in the 1st century, Saint Matthew was one of Jesus's 12 apostles and also one of the four Evangelists, according to the Bible. Became missionary and arrested in Ethiopia
Jesus falls the first time
Consider this first fall of Jesus under His Cross. His flesh was torn by the scourges, His head crowned with thorns, and He had lost a great quantity of blood. He was so weakened that he could scarcely walk, and yet he had to carry this great load upon His shoulders.
The criminal on the cross
In apocryphal writings, the impenitent thief is given the name Gestas, which first appears in the Gospel of Nicodemus, while his companion is called Dismas. Christian tradition holds that Gestas was on the cross to the left of Jesus and Dismas was on the cross to the right of Jesus.
The Road to Emmaus
In the fourth resurrection appearance on Easter Sunday, the story of the Road to Emmaus, (Luke 24:13-32), two disciples of Jesus are leaving Jerusalem to go home to Emmaus after having travelled there for Passover. Along the way, they are discussing the passion and death of Jesus
Canaanite woman
Jesus heals this woman's daughter when she comes asking for help
Jesus is arrested
Judas, one of the disciples, brings guards and the high priests to find Jesus and arrest him. He goes willingly
Jesus is condemned to death
Pontius Pilate served as the prefect of Judaea from 26 to 36 A.D. He convicted Jesus of treason and declared that Jesus thought himself King of the Jews, and had Jesus crucified. Pilate died 39 A.D. The cause of his death remains a mystery.
Jesus dies on the cross
Sanhedrin demanded that Jesus be crucified, so Pilate, fearing the Jews, turned Jesus over to one of his centurions to carry out the death sentence. He was crucified because Sanhedrin thought it was disrespectful that he called himself the messiah and goes around healing people.
The woman who washes Jesus feet
She came up behind Jesus, weeping, and wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed his feet, and poured the expensive perfume over them. ... Turning to the woman again, Jesus told her that her sins were forgiven. The other guests wondered who Jesus was, to forgive sins.
The empty tomb
The first sign of the Resurrection Jesus was found in an empty tomb which proves he wasn't lying
Simon of Cyrene
The man who was forced to help carry Jesus' cross to Golgotha
The passion narrative
The part of the Gospel that recounts Jesus' betrayal, arrest, trial, suffering, death, and burial
The woman at the well
The woman at the well had her sins "washed away" by Jesus. The story shows that Jesus offers divine mercy in the living water of grace, which washes away sins and cleanses souls. The woman went to the well to get a jug of water. Instead, she got much more, including a cleansed and refreshed spiritual life.
Simon the Leper
These two books narrate how Jesus made a visit to the house of Simon the Leper at Bethany during the course of which a woman anoints the head of Jesus with costly ointment.
Thomas
Thomas is famous for having doubted the Resurrection of Jesus and for demanding physical proof of the wounds of Christ's Crucifixion. The phrase "doubting Thomas" was coined for his lack of faith. When Jesus showed him the wounds, St. Thomas became the first person to explicitly acknowledge the divinity of Jesus
Lazarus
brother to Mary and Martha, raised to life by Jesus after being dead for 4 days "whoever believes in Jesus Christ receives spiritual life that even death can never take away"
Zacchaeus
the tax collector whom Jesus called down out of a tree and forgave his sins
