And it seemed as if kindness and gratitude for her service of love looked out from its features at her.

The women all came running up to see the miracle, and to haggle to get the cloth that bore such a picture for themselves.

But its possessor locked it up in her room.
When Jesus fell beneath the cross for the third time, He was unable to get up again.

The guards tugged and pulled Him; the Roman soldiers who accompanied them were too proud to carry the cross for this wretched Jew.

So the crowd was invited to chose someone to lift up Jesus and drag the cross along.