For the first time in the
papacy of Francis a woman will write the meditations for the
Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum on Good Friday, the
Vatican said Friday.
The author of this year's Via Crucis tests will be Professor
Anne-Marie Pelletier of France, a top Biblicist and student of
language and comparative literature, who won the Ratzinger Prize
in 2014.
Anne-Marie Pelletier is the fourth woman to draft the Via
Crucis meditations, which are read out by the pope.
The last was Mother Maria Rita Piccione, head of the
Foundation of Augustinian Nuns, for Benedict XVI in 2011.
There were two precedents under John Paul II: in 1993 they
were written by Mother Anna Maria Canopi, head of the 'Mater
Ecclesiae' Benedictine Abbey, and in 1995 by Sister Minke de
Vries, a nun in the Protestant community of Grandchamp in
Switerland
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