The Pope's via crucis in the face of the "madness of war". The Pope prays for the "unborn and newborn" Pope Francis will be tested until the last moment, as the nights in Rome remain cold and the air on the Palatine is humid.

It is very rare for the Pontiff to personally write the texts of the Via Crucis, a tradition that began in 1750, interrupted with the Unity of Italy and finally resumed by Paul VI starting in 1964.