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• The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
• He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
• In his weekly post, Williamson wrote that "the killing of Jesus was truly 'deicide' " and that "only the Jews leaders and people were the prime agents of the deicide because it is obvious from the gospels that the gentile most involved, Pontius Pilate, … would never have condemned Jesus to death had not the Jewish leaders roused the Jewish people to clamour for his crucifixion. Bishop's blog raises tensions between Jews and the Vatican
• The use of the word Parasceve in the Gospels raises the question concerning the actual day of Our Lord's crucifixion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
• The ongoing row between the Catholic Church and the Spanish Government has erupted again after a judge banned the crucifix from a primary school. Spain: Parents win fight to remove class crucifix
• Anthony's oak coffin had a large brass crucifix on the lid.
• She always wears a small gold crucifix round her neck.
• At or near the front, soldiers came across public crucifixes or calvaries, often for the first time. Times, Sunday Times
• I would like to think people come to the Met to see the David Lavoisier, the Van Eyck diptych of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement, and the Velazquez Juan de Pareja.
• From a drawer in the oak sideboard he fetched another crucifix on a heavy chain and a pair of thick bracelets.