The procession arrives at Calvary

Saint Mark - Chapter 15

The procession arrives at Calvary. J-J tissot

[22] Et perducunt illum in Golgotha locum : quod est interpretatum Calvariae locus.
And they bring him into the place called Golgotha, which being interpreted is, The place of Calvary.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

Many paths lead up the slopes of Calvary, and Jesus is compelled to take the shortest, which is also the steepest.  Simon the Cyrenian, with his two sons, Alexander and Rufus, at a little distance behind, come to help Him to rise as He falls for the last few times.  The thieves follow Him, each bearing the upper portion of his own cross, called in Latin the patibulum, which, according to Plautus, condemned criminals were compelled to carry all round the town before their execution.  The assistants bring up the rear laden with everything which will be required for the erection of the crosses and for the carrying out of all the legal formalities; one has the nails, hammers and ropes, another the vinegar and the wine mixed with myrrh, etc.  The Pharisees and the Chief Priests, mounted on horses or essays, take easier path, which makes more of a detour, to reach the platform of Golgotha, where they look forward to gloating on all the terrible details of the execution.  On the left can be seen the wall enclosing the Garden of Joseph of Arimathæa in which is a sepulchre hewn out of the living rock, where Jesus was soon to be buried.

In Palestine the grass, continually browsed on as it is by a sheep and goats, is cropped extremely short, and, after the rains of the winter and the spring, it resembles a very closely-woven carpet which disappears altogether during the first try weeks of summer.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam