„When our Lord announced to his Blessed Mother what was going to take place, she besought him, in the most touching terms, to let her die with him.“
“the Blessed Virgin, filled with intense feelings of motherly love, entreated her Son to permit her to die with him”
“He seized his lance and rode quickly up to the mound on which the Cross was planted, stopped just between the cross of the good thief and that of our Lord, and taking his lance in both hands, thrust it so completely into the right side of Jesus that the point went through the heart, and appeared on the left side. When Cassius drew his lance 
out of the wound a quantity of blood and water rushed from it, and flowed over his face and body. This species of washing produced effects somewhat similar to the vivifying waters of Baptism: grace and salvation at once entered his soul. He leaped from his horse, threw himself upon his knees, struck his breast, and confessed loudly before all his firm belief in the divinity of Jesus.”
Jesus‘ body is lowered into era focuses on Mary in the “Pieta pose” before panning and fading out (this suggests Mary as a co-redeemer)
No precaution had been neglected which could in any way facilitate to her-the Mother of Sorrows-in her deep affliction of soul, the mournful but most sacred duty which she was about to fulfil in regard to the body of her beloved Son
“When the body was taken down it was wrapped in linen from the knees to the waist, and then placed in the arms of the Blessed Virgin, who, overwhelmed with sorrow and love, stretched them forth to receive their precious burden.”
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