Tucked in the back of a mausoleum in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a stained-glass window that depicts Christ carrying the Cross along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem on His way to Crucifixion.

This dramatic portrayal shows Christ bent and crawling up steps with the Cross on his back.  He is surrounded by two Roman soldiers with spears and clubs drawn. At the top of the steps Simon of Cyrene appears to be getting read to help Christ carry the heavy burden.

King James Version, Luke 23: 27 “And as they led Him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the Cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.”

In this depiction, Christ carries the entire Cross.  However, many modern Biblical scholars believe that Christ carried only a patibulum or crossbar which was affixed to a pole or stipe that was already driven into the ground at Golgotha, also known as Calvary or the Hill upon which Christ was crucified.