Virgin of the Crucifixion Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

In his homiletic reflection on Mary's experience of Good Friday, St. Romanos the Melodian (a 6th century deacon) imagines Mary witnessing Christ on the Way of the Cross:

As she saw her own lamb being dragged to slaughter,
Mary, the ewe-lamb, worn out with grief, followed with other women, crying out,
"Where are you going, my child? For whose sake are you competing the course so fast?
Is there once again another wedding in Cana?
And are you hurrying there now to make wine for them from water?
Should I go with you, my child, or rather wait for you?
Give me a word, O Word. Do not ass me by in silence, 
you who kept me pure,
my Son, and my God."