Word: crucifixions
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...well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen to be a very different one. The greatest new event will then not be the monotonous rise of yet another secular civilization out of the bosom of the Christian church . . . it will still be the Crucifixion and its spiritual consequences...
...Christian calendar, Palm Sunday is a day on which hope contends with despair. The faithful express their joy in commemoration of Christ's entry into Jerusalem; they remember, in Lenten sorrow, His Crucifixion...
...Twelve considered the Crucifixion a "noble example"; 23 believed that it was "divine redemption for sinful...
This jolting dose of culture was such a hit with St. Matthew's plain parishioners that Parson Hussey decided to do it every year. Each St. Matthew's Day (Sept. 21) he commissions at least one new work, like Sutherland's Crucifixion. The congregation raises the funds...
...cleared, the little Bavarian town of Oberammergau (pop. 3,944) will probably need a new Jesus. By 1950, greying Alois Lang will be 59 and too old for his Passion Play ordeal of carrying a 100-lb. cross and hanging from it in make-believe crucifixion for 22 muscle-tearing minutes...