Procession of Our Lord of the Passion of Graça

[1] The faithful go in solemn procession, from the Church of Saint Roch in Bairro Alto to Graça Convent in São Vicente, in emulation of the Via Dolorosa, the path taken by Jesus on the way to His crucifixion on Mount Calvary, making seven stops along the way that correspond to some of the episodes of the Passion narrative.

Jorge Cardoso says, in his work Agiológio Lusitano, that it was Miguel de Castro, the Archbishop of Lisbon himself, that, with Luís Álvares, defined the route of the procession and the places where the stations would be.

[4] After the 5 October 1910 revolution and the anticlericalist First Portuguese Republic and until 2013, the procession took a shorter route, fully within the limits of the parish of Graça (the single exception being the year 1987, on the 400th anniversary of the Brotherhood).

In 2013, during a period of renewal of the Brotherhood's human resources, the "Long Procession" (Portuguese: Procissão Grande) was resumed, following the original route between the Church of Saint Roch and the Graça Convent.

The Station of Santo André was restored and reunveiled on 8 March 2020 by Cardinal Manuel Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon, during the Procession of Our Lord of the Passion.