Word: crucifixes
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...died a bachelor April 15 ot last year (TIME, April 27) in London, where he had made his home since 1884, although of American parentage. Just now his sisters are erecting in the crypt of St. Paul's, London, a large bronze crucifix in his memory. It represents Christ holding a chalice, with a figure on either side. He designed it for the Boston library...
...symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same wall before which the Wechselburg Pulpit and Crucifix are mounted, the two figures fit well into the setting and worthily complete the exhibit of thirteenth century Teutonic sculpture...
...surprisingly willing to talk. Not once could the reporter bring the name of Mussolini to the Cardinal's lips, but step by step through the interview the third person masculine referred invariably to the Dictator beyond the Alps. Summarizing recent history, the Cardinal said: "He has replaced the crucifix in the schools; he has returned the buildings which belonged to the Jesuits...
...Apostles and refute, as became a fearless Jew scholar, the hated Christ. The Apostles made Eli Christ's man. In a Catholic woman's house where Eli, his lungs crushed by a lorry, his veins running morphine, hung in bandages, the Christ hung upon an alabaster crucifix. On the sixth day, the curtains of the niche opened to the sick man, Christ's wounds bled miraculously and Eli was recruited, another carpenter, to strengthen his brethren...
...returned to Mars, there would have been one question to which he could have made no sane answer to inquisitive friends and relatives: " What is the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.?" In Philadelphia, passing through Locust Street, he would have seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High Mass- they went, 700 strong, Had the Martian proceeded to the Witherspoon Auditorium, he would have heard...