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Commissioned by: Oliver ReganMedium: oil and gilt on wood panelExecuted by: Hildreth MeièreAdditional fabricators: Louis Ross, gilding
Stations of the Cross in nave of St. Anthony of Padua
Architect Oliver Regan commissioned Hildreth Meière to design Stations of the Cross as wall panels for the newly rebuilt St. Anthony of Padua Church dedicated on October 24, 1948. The original church had been destroyed by fire four years earlier.1
Pilate washes his hands
Jesus accepts his cross
Jesus falls for the first time
Jesus meets his mother
Simon helps Jesus carry the cross
Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
Jesus falls for the second time
Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
Jesus falls for the third time
Jesus is stripped of his clothes
Jesus is nailed to the cross
Jesus dies on the cross
Jesus is taken down from the cross
Jesus is placed in the tomb
The gilded backgrounds of the wall panels were executed by Louis Ross. Ross had also been responsible for gilding two additional commissions from Regan that Meière had designed for churches in Connecticut in 1940: Stations of the Cross at St. Joseph’s Church in Canaan, and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on wood panel at Church of the Assumption in Westport.