Word: cruciforms
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Contemporaneous with General Pershing's utterances was the announcement of plans for another National Church in Washington, this one not to be a U. S. Westminster Abbey or even a cathedral. Instead, it will be the largest U. S. cruciform church; it will be called the National Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., president of its incorporators, revealed that a site had already been chosen, that the church would be 290 feet long and 150 feet wide, that its steeple or tower would rise 222 feet above the ground...
...juniper tree was cruciform. Some hours after his prayer, young Bishop Latour found hidden water. Brother Joseph Vaillant, the scrawny but indomitable baker's son with whom Jean Latour stole out of France to make comradely conquests for God in the New World, and who later became bishop of tumbled, rocky Colorado, might have greatly elaborated this miracle, introducing the Virgin in colored robes when he related it. But not Bishop Latour. He was not a visionary ascetic. He wrought humbly with Nature, not beyond...