How To Use Crucifix In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anthony's oak coffin had a large brass crucifix on the lid.
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She always wears a small gold crucifix round her neck.
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At or near the front, soldiers came across public crucifixes or calvaries, often for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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From a drawer in the oak sideboard he fetched another crucifix on a heavy chain and a pair of thick bracelets.
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The character has been lobotomised and spends almost the entire play standing against the wall with arms raised as though nailed to a crucifix.
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Professor von Duhn told me that once when approaching an Italian village in search of inscriptions he was taken for the devil, being unluckily mounted on a black horse and dressed in black, and was met by a priest with a crucifix, who was at last persuaded to "disinfect" him with holy water as a condition of his being admitted to the village.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Johnson's film also contains at least one decent surprise, a nice line in black humour, and looks very stylish throughout, while being laden with religious imagery - referring to the crucifixion and the stigmata on several occasions.
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At the intersection was a human figure, neither male nor female, arms outstretched as in a crucifixion, but not nailed.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Lie flat on your back with your legs straight, heels resting on a bench or chair and arms stretched out on the floor in crucifix position.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!'
Stray Pearls
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While Luther was still hidden in the Wartburg, the first iconoclastic rioters entered his own church in Wittenberg in January 1522 to tear down and destroy the paintings, statues and above all, the crucifixes.
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So the Credo leads from a gently flowing opening to boldly dramatic effects, emphatic in the use of timpani and with the Crucifixus bringing a striking unison passage for tenors and basses.
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In those two hours, the audience, the congregation, the singers, the musicians, re-live, in a powerful way, the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.
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The colours of their canoes and clothes were softened by the dim air and long use, and there seemed to accompany each boat and each person an atmosphere within this other haze, a spiritual kind of exhalation; so that one might have thought them, with the crucifixes on their breasts, and that unworldly, distinguished look which comes to those who live much with nature, as sons of men going upon such mission as did they who went into the far land with Arthur.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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A small bejewelled crucifix is found in a pond, and it passes from hand to hand, sometimes being sold, sometimes being given away.
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Frey is, we are to understand, a man of sorrows, who has undergone excruciation if not crucifixion, and has been stigmatised by his bad press.
The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review
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We read this image afresh through the author's eyes, seeing how to interpret the crucifix which is at the heart of Luther's service of the word, as well as a constant presence in Cranach's altarpieces.
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A spare, sinewy ascetic, he gazes at the crucifix with an emotional intensity unseen in paintings of the early 1470s.
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The canvas featured an erect penis and a crucifix with what appeared to be semen dripping from it.
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They find him not as a dead Christ on a crucifix, but as a living Saviour, who is both willing and able to give them eternal life and peace with God.
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On the very right-hand edge of the painting, the curtain is slightly pulled back to reveal a silver crucifix.
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In two of the chapels there are some fine altar-pieces by Holbein and one of his scholars; and a very large crucifix of silver and ebony, which is kept with great care, is said to have been carried with the Crusaders to the Holy Land.
Views a-foot
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The shroud is imprinted with the image of a naked man who bears the marks of whipping and crucifixion.
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Ferre non possunt ut illorum Messias communis servator sit, nostrum gaudium, &c. Messias vel decem decies crucifixuri essent, ipsumque Deum si id fieri posset, una cum angelis et creaturis omnibus, nec absterretur ab hoc facto et si mille interna subeunda forent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He elsewhere asserts very decidedly (without however giving reasons) that the Quartodeciman controversy turned on the point whether the 14th Nisan was the day of the Last Supper or the day of the Crucifixion, the
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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Like he did with the ban on wearing the crucifix!
The Sun
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He used to wear an Egyptian ankh, a star of David and a crucifix around his neck.
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Through the 1950s and 60s, he carved crucifixes, lecterns and other features for churches across England and Wales.
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Designer Michiel Cornelissen laser-sintered stainless-steel crucifix has screwdriver bits cut into each tip, turning it into a screwdriver that repels vampires.
Boing Boing
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Every person and item of ritual furniture the altar with its book, candlesticks and crucifix laid out, the papal throne to the left with its honorific baldacchino is numbered and then labeled in the key below, so that viewers of the print can learn every arcane detail of this aspect of the papal mass.
Archive 2009-03-01
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During these hidden years, Jeanne often spent hours kneeling in the chapel, gazing at the crucifix or the tabernacle of Christ's presence.
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Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder.
Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
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Simon Zelotes speaketh it somewhile after the Crucifixion.
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
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For example, some who fixate on the image of the crucifixion are known to reproduce the wounds of Christ so-called stigmata.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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Gold bracelet, sports shirt, and a small crucifix dangled from a 24-carat chain round his throat.
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The sanctuary mirrors the octagonal shape of the building itself, and five sections of pews, each five to eight rows deep, face the center, where an octagonal altar stands beneath an enormous suspended crucifix.
American Grace
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Ducking altar boy practice was a big deal to someone who hung a crucifix on the wall, prayed the rosary, and considered Father James Cronin, the longtime pastor of my church, a saint.
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Only honesty isn't likely if the reward for it is crucifixion in the press, four different malpractice suits and an exemplary jail sentence.
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The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
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More surprisingly, the Pitti Palace at Florence housed a collection of amber vessels, cabinets, figures, caskets and crucifixes.
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Dressed in flowing white, wearing a crown-of-thorns headdress and posing with arms outstretched, crucifixion-style, Lilo was snapped by style photographer Terry Richardson for the new issue of Purple Magazine.
Lindsay Lohan Nude Threesome Photoshoot Purple Magazine
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Religious jewelry such as crosses, crucifixes, stars of David, ichthuses, crescents, etc, are permissible if similar jewelry is permitted in the dresscode.
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How can you, when every crucifix, monstrance, rosary, statue of the Virgin Mary or picture of the Sacred Heart that you see reminds you of the abuse that you suffered?
Fr. Benedict Groeschel blasts American Psychological Association
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Their requeft being granted, Peter Aldobrandin, one of thofe monks, prefented himfelf in his facer - dotal veflments with a crucifix in his hand, be - fore a large pile of wood all on fire.
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period
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This changes with the third crucifix from the monastery, which is also in the former community's church and dated to 1330.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The Crucifixion was delivered, and therefore reckoned to be finished, but it is also strikingly economical and bold in its details.
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We shall not 'quicken' our fellows unless we 'die,' either literally or by the not less real martyrdom of rigid self-crucifixion and suppression.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
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He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side to Thomas, this made him fall down and confess him as his own Lord and God.
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The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative.
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His black necktie was steadied by a gold pin the shape of a crucifix.
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St Paul's greatness is not, however, constituted by this rationalism -- for such we must term the arithmetical manipulation of the death of Jesus -- but by an entirely new appreciation of the Crucifixion.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.
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We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection.
The Reality of Discipleship
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In general, most objectors dismissed it as a ceremonial or symbolic token; an expression of faith, like a crucifix, except it was a blade that could cut, maim and harm.
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In that tradition, it may be recalled, the crucifixion of Christ is construed as Christianity's repudiation of the earthly and fleshly, to which Dionysian intoxication is the alternative.
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Not a very large structure, the church was more of a chapel - bearing only five rows of pews, a small confessional, and an altar below a crucifix.
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When he saw the crucifix on the front of the Catholic Church, he automatically removed his hat and blessed himself.
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Next, on the liturgical left, is Filippino's Crucifixion of Peter, where the original subject is at question.
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Now it is well known, both from remains of victims of crucifixion and from cadaver experiments, that people were not crucified with nails through the palms.
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While anatomical and spatial description is often minimal, the overall narrative organization and pace of the scenes is dramatic, culminating in the powerful Crucifixion which takes up the main space of an entire bay.
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If the Western imperial church hadn't burned heretics and crusaded against Christians who objected to the Crusades, we'd have a lot more who aren't obsessed with the crucifixion.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Ideological Roots Of Christian Terrorism
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You put the wind up her with that crucifix down your sock.
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The German Romantic painter draws a brooding mysticality from the glow of snow and the darkness of upward-soaring pines as a cripple casts away his crutches to pray before a tiny wayside crucifix.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Three hundred thousand gathered in St. Peter's Square over the weekend, there to witness the rise to sainthood of Padre Pio, a friar who bore the stigmata, that is the marks of crucifixion.
CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2002
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He said his abuser, who is now dead, once attacked him with a crucifix.
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Standing on a parapet of fictive marble, dressed in the brown habit of his order, St Francis gazes intently at a wooden crucifix held between his crossed hands.
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More surprisingly, the Pitti Palace at Florence housed a collection of amber vessels, cabinets, figures, caskets and crucifixes.
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Obviously, the image for him was Christ, and the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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In front of the chapel is an atrial cross depicting the crucifixion of Christ.
The Meseta Purepecha
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There is no harm to another if a colleague chooses to wear a crucifix or a headscarf.
Times, Sunday Times
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The period covered by the narrative in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67.
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His 1912 Calvary is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his White Crucifixion hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Around his neck hangs the huge gold crucifix he has worn for 40 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sacristy was a jumble of prayer books, vestments, broken rosaries, crucifixes, and pictures.
The Red Horizon
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His duties even called on him to be the first person to try out the cross for the Crucifixion scene.
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Denoncourt's Via crucis explores a boy's imaginative interpretation of the Catholic iconic representation of the crucifixion and ascension of Christ.
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Lower and upper-voice duets vary the texture in the following two sections ‘Crucifixus’ and ‘Et resurrexit’, and the ‘Et iterum’ is set to a trio between first soprano, alto and tenor.
Archive 2009-06-01
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A three-judge panel entered the courtroom and sat beneath its only decorations, a Peruvian flag and a crucifix.
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On one kiosk in the physical show a brief view of a crucifix covered with ants by Wojnarowicz was called sacrilegious by Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, and others, and the Portrait Gallery decided it was too much of a distraction to the overall themes of the show.
Portrait Gallery gets huge online bump
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The villagers are wide-eyed with superstition, and crucifixes are plastered everywhere.
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Grunewald's Crucifixion becomes a symbol of Germany's agony, the Passion it suffered as a consequence of its defeat in World War I.
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The crucifixion is the point of concentrated intensity which above all realizes what is most distinctive about Christian theology of salvation, and it will be taken up in the next section.
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While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite his bed.
Les Miserables
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Christ, the Grand Inquisitor, seated as judge; his familiars standing by ready with their implements of torture to fulfil his bidding; his fellow monks enthroned around him; his sign, the crucifix, towering from hell to heaven in sight of the universe; the whole heretical world, dressed in the sanbenito, helpless before him, awaiting their doom?
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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The figure of Christ during the crucifixion is actually James Caviezel, despite popular rumors - no animatronics were used.
Boing Boing: March 21, 2004 - March 27, 2004 Archives
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The metal of the gun is forged from a combination of Irish church bells, cold iron from crucifixes, blessed silver, and other mystic metals-wiki
Samaritan Gun | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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Augustus III was of a religious turn of mind, and he had Meissen produce sacred art like Kandler's Crucifixion, one of the largest porcelain groups.
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It is sacrilege to steal a crucifix from an altar.
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I gazed at a silver crucifix dangling on a fine chain under the pit of her throat.
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He had long ago sought out and met Father Pio de Pietraicina, the Italian Capuchin monk who suffered the stigmata of Christ's crucifixion.
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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After this, having been summoned from England into Spain, he made many works there, which are scattered about in various places, and are held in great estimation; and, among others, he made a Crucifix of terra-cotta, which is the most marvellous thing that there is in all Spain.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
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He has a new play, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, running in New York, and an even newer work, Crucifixion, receiving its world premiere in San Francisco in October.
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These include a fragmented image of the crucifixion with parts of Christ's body in pieces around the cross.
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For a start I believe the audience is responding to the power of the original plays and their retelling of the Christian story from the creation to the crucifixion and resurrection.
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In some communities, flagellation and/or real crucifixion is included.
Easter in Mexico, Semana Santa and Pascua: a resource page
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They do not even seem to allude to crucifixes or church buildings or vestments or liturgical practice.
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When I opened the door and looked through the grille separating the lightless enclosure from the visitors' parlor, I found her standing under the massive crucifix, looking up at the pale and bleeding Christ.
INVIDIA
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The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion.
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Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfillment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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A mass of rags in the corner was the communal bed, and the only ornament a rough-hewn crucifix.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The Medieval section includes the famous Aby crucifix, golden altars, bejewelled illustrated manuscripts, triptychs, granite fonts, chalices, ivory and aquamaniles.
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The choir will be singing Crucifixion, by Stainer, and anybody interested in joining in can go along to the rehearsal at 2pm on the same day.
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In place of a crucifix, the wall behind the altar bears a painted multicolor tribute to what one congregant calls “the upward progress of black people throughout the world.”
American Grace
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The enormous crucifix fixed on the wall behind the altar and above the golden tabernacle portrayed the death of Jesus Christ, the son of the Lord God, in a solemn and very sacred manner.
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Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of
Candide
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A table by the bedside, covered in a clean white cloth, held two lighted blessed candles, a crucifix, a cruet of holy water and a sprinkler.
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Tiberius, the emperor at the time of Christ's crucifixion, is represented here by a round-topped sandstone stela that shows him in classic pharaonic dress with a winged sun-disk kneeling before a couple of gods and with his name translated into hieroglyphs, recording the reconstruction of some flood-damaged temples at Karnak.
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London
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He seemed very happy and serene afterwards, holding on to the crucifix the padre had given him.
MR STARLIGHT
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Similarly, her consideration of wearing a crucifix as jewellery was linked to assumptions that individuals might ascribe to the wearer.
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Above the retable is the Madonna with two saints on either side: the crucifix surmounts the whole composition.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
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With the agonized reach of his rigid left arm and the crucifixate tilt of his crossed feet, the defrosting mummy struck a pose that wouldn't look out of place in a 14th-century altarpiece.
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Hastily, Cecilia put the crucifix back in the box and in the drawer on her nightstand.
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The Crucifixion series, he says, ‘will go on forever, because every time I start one I never know what's going to go into it.’
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Reykjavik are to be found handsome crucifixes, statues, antependia, etc., which recall the Catholic past.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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The Grail itself, which began as the dish from which Jesus are at the Last Supper, and in which his blood was collected at the Crucifixion, has become the chalice of the Last Supper, and by implication the forerunner of the chalice of the Mass.
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He tried to enforce the wearing of dog collars but undermined his own argument somewhat when he confessed how he liked to wander incognito in Rome's flea markets in search of discarded chalices, crucifixes and holywater fonts.
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Ask anyone and they will tell you that to protect yourself from a vampire you will require: garlic, a crucifix, holy water, and a nice big, pointy stake.
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On the point of the outermost is a crucifix, and between both, towards the middle, are figures of the Virgin
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828
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Soutine's paintings of skinned rabbits, plucked fowl, fish and beef carcasses—metaphors for suffering and martyrdom, especially the Crucifixion—were inspired by paintings of similar subjects by Titian, El Greco, Rembrandt and Chardin.
Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
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‘Above all are their riches displayed in the church treasures; for there is not a parish church… so mean as not to possess crucifixes, candlesticks, censers, patens and cups of silver’.
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This pray is set towards the end of his time with them on earth but before the crucifixion.
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Unfortunately, this popular tale has as much basis as the legends attributing crucifixes and saintly reliefs in various Apuan village churches, and even one Gothic rose window, to the great master.
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Among the numerous paintings in his outdoor gallery were poignant representations of the Crucifixion of Christ, the Nativity, the Three Wise Men, and the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
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John Paul's coffin was of unpolished, uncarved timber bearing a plain crucifix on top.
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What makes this humorous is how people lose site of the value of life - easier to do thanks to the nature of the crime - in favor of the trivial discussions over percentages and the accuracy with Christ's crucifixion.
REVIEW: Infinity Plus - The Anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers
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The usual crucifixion began with the victim being flogged and severely beaten.
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He nearly fainted with fear but somehow he managed to pull free and grab his silver crucifix.
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As opposed to the resurrection, the cross symbolises crucifixion.
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Masaccio himself painted a small version of Peter's crucifixion for the predella of the Pisa polyptych, where squat pyramids, hardly taller than the figures, take up considerable space at both edges of the panel.
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This was a drug that would ease the acute pain that crucifixion brought to the victim.
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She arrived at the doors of the convent while the abbess was praying in front of the church's crucifix.
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Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.
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Only Julian actually mentions paintings, a crucifix, and a vernicle.
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The priests and monks priested it, tight girding their girdles and uplifting the Crucifixes, while the Moslem shouted out the professions of the Requiting King and verses of the Koran began to sing.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.
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It might be of the Paradise in which, on the very day of the crucifixion, the penitent thief was to meet the Saviour of mankind; or it might be of that Heaven, yet increate or unpeopled, seen by some in long, distant perspective, shadowed forth in such lines as these: --
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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The window on the east wing depicts the crucifixion while the Lady Chapel features a spectacular scene of the Ascension.
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When Maradona appears on Dancing With The Stars via satellite on Friday he is wearing two stud earrings, a heavy crucifix on a chain around his neck, jeans and a red T-shirt tight enough to keep no secrets.
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I can still remember "our" nun, Sister Carmela, a drill sergeant of a woman, wimpled and veiled, with long swishy robes and a lethal black crucifix hanging from a hidden string of rosary beads, which she used with Terminator precision to punish miscreants.
Me and Sister Carmela
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I stroked the beads of the rosary, and the glitter of the tiny crucifix caught my eye.
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Frantically, her fingers explored the cloth until they alighted upon a cool piece of knobby metal - the crucifix on the end of her rosary.
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One nun tearfully put her crucifix round his neck and prayed that he would be protected.
Times, Sunday Times
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To a papist, Luther thought, the crucifix was indeed an idol, something to be venerated and bowed down to.
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Examples of jewellery being worn other than for adornment, are necklaces such as the cross or crucifixes worn by Christians as potent religious symbols.
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He was a committed Christian, and the organist and choirmaster of his local church, and he wore a discreet crucifix in his lapel, but he never proselytised.
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Evensong was half over when the preacher arrived, and the church being full Mark was given a chair by the sidesman in a dark corner, which presently became darker when Father Rowley went up into the pulpit, for all the lights were lowered except those above the preacher's head, and nothing was visible in the church except the luminous crucifix upon the High Altar.
The Altar Steps
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Jesus showed them from the Old Testament how the crucifixion was not in fact a denial of the Messiahship of Jesus.
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A few moments later, he returned with an altar-boy carrying a crucifix, and a sacristan who walked before them ringing a bell to announce that the Lord was coming to the house of the dying woman.
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After all, the one to whom he said this had apparently committed a crime that deserved the most severe punishment available, crucifixion.
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The crucifix contained a piece of wood taken from the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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Unitarian in religion; more accurately, I was a psilanthropist, one of those who believe our Lord to have been the real son of Joseph, and who lay the main stress on the resurrection rather than on the crucifixion.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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It was made ready, its stage transformed into a sanctuary and choir, an altar erected with dossals and riddles, hanging crucifix and candles.
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He wrote that the fascination of sexuality in a negative form has long been a feature of Christianity and that the crucifix had been rendered unauthentic by this negative sexual mindset.
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It was a celebratory, sedate, courtly dance: exultant outstretched jumps, falling, turning and an eloquent reflection on the crucifixion.
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A poster of an Italian soccer team was on the wall opposite her bed, and over the headboard was a hand-carved crucifix.
The 6th Target
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One protester, wielded a large wooden crucifix as she stood in front of a blazing caravan.
Times, Sunday Times
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The extracanonical portrait of James fasting and anticipating seeing Jesus after the crucifixion also needs to be considered.
Review of Did The Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
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For generations, parishioners have donated many items such as our beautiful stained glass windows, silver chalices, ciboria, monstrance, statues and crucifix.
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Crucifixion there often appears beneath the feet a wooden support (, suppedaneum); that it ever existed is very doubtful.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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a dozen religions: some of them barbarous; some cynical and pessimistic; some amoristic and romantic; some sceptical and challenging; some kindly, simple, and intuitional; some sophistical and intellectual; none suited to the character and conditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and has never been put into practice by any State before or since.
Treatise on Parents and Children
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It was then that the bullet flew past him, hitting the brass cross and sending the crucifix crashing to the ground.
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The word crucifix means fixed or nailed to the cross.
Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
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To the right of the entrance into the cloisters is a building containing the refectory, with a Last Supper, by Giotto, and above it a Crucifixion and Tree of Jesse.
The South of France—East Half
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Yet for the Indie's Tim Luckhurst, 'Kate's crucifixion' is a tale of fashion labels 'buckling' under the pressure of the hideous tabloids.
Archive 2005-09-25
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The little closet in "Carrie", with the bloody Jesus crucifix.
Dont go in there!
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Note 45: "Also hatten si ein crucifix, für dz gie si gar dicke betten, vnd rette mit ime als ein frund mit dem andern ....
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The variety of Pino's responses to Michelangelo is seen in his later Crucifixion of 1577 in SS Severino e Sossio, where Christ's lithe body is seen above a commotion of figures below.
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This was a drug that would ease the acute pain that crucifixion brought to the victim.
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Blood may be seen running down the crucifix, while tiny specks of vermilion represent drops of blood on Christ's foot and loincloth.
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Quebec has banned state employees from wearing burqas, niqabs, yarmulkes or large crucifixes in the workplace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carroll enters the classroom - the setting is deliberately sparse: a large blackboard, a crucifix, a lift-up desk and one wooden chair - dressed in the white collarless shirt, black soutane and trousers of the Christian Brothers order.
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Over these she wore a Spanish aroba, or twenty -- five pounds weight of gold chains, saints, and crucifixes, and a large black velvet patch, of the size of a wafer, on each temple, which I found, by the by, to be an ornament very much in fashion amongst the fair of Panama.
Tom Cringle's Log
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That shift encouraged decorative artistic works like crucifixes to be affixed to the walls facing the priests and the congregation.
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It's a pretty basic assignment that asks only that one read fairly carefully; the key is that our culture tends to use Christic imagery that's either pathos-filled (the pieta and suffering/crucifixion imagery) or pastoral (the Jesus hanging out with little children or teaching imagery), while the poem's imagery is more heroic:
Archive 2007-01-01
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Even so, in the instance of the crucifixion, the same image is present to the theanthropist and to the psilanthropist or Socinian -- but to the latter it represents a mere man,
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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Padre Pio, the priest who suffered from stigmata comparable to those suffered by Jesus Christ in His Crucifixion, became an object of special identification to that little girl's family.
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The first crucifixion is being doled out to "Cynewulf," played by a 27 year-old electrical engineer from Flint, Michigan, whose crime is "ganking" (ripping off) new players as they first appear in game.
- Boing Boing
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The crucifix turns, sending glints of light in all directions.
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Jerusalem - Thousands of Christian pilgrims flocked to Jerusalem Friday to retrace Jesus Christ's last steps to his crucifixion along the route known as the Via Dolorosa, in Jerusalem's Old City.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The blood flows appeared to extend from the wrist to the elbow, which would have been consistent with the outstretching of the arm in crucifixion.
The Shroud Codex
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They are very industrious however at their Prayrs and devotions that is to say in repeating their Pater Nosters, in counting their Beads, in kissing their Crucifixes, and taking off their hair Shifts to whip and lacerate themselves every day for their Sins, to discipline themselves to greater Spirituality in the Christian Life.
John Adams autobiography, part 3, "Peace," 1779-1780
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There's something both hypocritically and blasphemously charming about a band whose right-hand man chews a lit cigarette on stage trust me, I've seen it, whose album art features the same bandmember brandishing an almost finished cancer stick and staring into a projected crucifix, and whose mohawked keyboard player quite literally jumps on his musical instrument while playing it.
Judah Joseph: REVIEW: Foxy Shazam, The Church Of Rock And Roll
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Jesus suffered crucifixion because he knew that his ideas could triumph only through his own sacrifice.
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If the centrality of the crucifix is eliminated, the common understanding of the meaning of the liturgy runs the risk of being distorted as a result.
Mauro Gagliardi on the Centrality of the Crucified Christ in the Liturgical Celebration
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He lay on a bier under a simple crucifix with his bishop's staff under his arm.
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Images of black-clad Roman Catholic priests holding crucifixes and carrying bottles of holy water also spring to mind.
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She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though.
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The crucifix at Cross Hills was erected as a war memorial in August 1917, its cost being met by villagers.
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Sutherland accepted a commission to paint a Crucifixion for a church in Northampton.
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The Grünewald altarpiece had also been a favourite of the German expressionists, being the starting point for Emil Nolde's famous Crucifixion of 1912.
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Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.
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In the mouldings of the arched canopy the ball-flower ornament is again in evidence, and behind the tomb a carving of the crucifixion is still visible, though nearly obliterated by the chisel of the Puritans.
Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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The Iberian goldsmiths and iron-workers still certainly produced their famous grilles, jewels, morses, chalices, and crucifixes while in needle-work the finest workers of Castile were elaborating some of the most perfect examples of church vestments that have ever been produced.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Her neck is hung with crucifixes and beads, while her wrists are weighted with bands of stainless steel.
