Follow link below labelled "Read More>>" to find the excerpt from the book The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary From the Visions of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich (pg 351-352) that so deeply touched the soul of Sr. Marie.
Behind the house, at a little distance up the hill, the Blessed Virgin had made a kind of Way of the Cross. When she was living in Jerusalem, she had never failed, ever since Our Lord’s death, to follow His path to Calvary with tears of compassion. She had paced out and measured all the distances between the Stations of that Via Crucis, and her love for her Son made her unable to live without this constant contemplation of His sufferings. Soon after her arrival at her new home [in Ephesus] I saw her every day climbing part of the way up the hill behind her house to carry out this devotion. At first she went by herself, measuring the number of steps, so often counted by her, which separated the places of Our Lord’s different sufferings. At each of these places she put up a stone, or, if there was already a tree there, she made a mark upon it. The way led into the wood, and upon a hill in this would she parked the place of Calvary, and the grave of Christ in a little cave in another hill. After she marked this Way of the Cross with twelve Stations, she went there with her maidservant in quiet meditation: at each Station they sat down and renewed the mystery of its significance in their hearts, praising the Lord for His love with tears of compassion. Afterwards she arranged the Stations better, and I saw her inscribing on the stones the meaning of each Station, the number of paces and so forth. I saw, too, that she cleaned out the cave of the Holy Sepulchre and made it a place for prayer. At that time I saw no picture and no fixed cross to designate the Stations, nothing but plains memorial stones with inscriptions, but afterwards, as the result of constant visits and attention, I saw the place becoming increasingly beautiful and easy of approach. After the Blessed Virgin’s death I saw this Way of the Cross being visited by Christians, who threw themselves down and kissed the ground.
There exists today historical evidence of these Stations of the Cross but sadly what we consider precious relics are held in a public museum in Turkey. Thankfully though we can still see them. Here is a photo of them.
Imagine the Blessed Virgin’s hands marking these stones through her tears with her own hands…the same hands that swaddled, fed, and rocked the Little Lord Jesus now inscribing stones marking his suffering and death.
Imagine the reverence with which Sr. Marie prayed at one of these Stations that she was blessed to help find. Imagine the grace that the Lord God poured forth into her soul in thanksgiving to her for persevering in the search for Mary’s House with the Via Crucis so that His Mother might receive the devotion of her children and consolation to her Sorrowful Heart. Here is a photo of Sr. Marie kneeling on the Via Crucis. 
