crucifix
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Mission-educated, they live in a nice house with a crucifix on the wall and shelves full of literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Instead, the wows come from good stagings of ordinary action: a car crash, a gripped crucifix, a hideout crowded with jostling, thrumming musical instruments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
The crucifix and Elgin watch conjured Sunday mornings and the quiet pride of women who never stepped outside without dignity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Someone knelt down and clipped a microphone to her lapel, a few inches from the crucifix that dangled from her neck.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025
“Padre,” I said, kissing the crucifix he offered me, “I feel lost. I don’t know what the Lord requires of us in these hard times.”
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
The Roman Catholic Church has long been vigilant when it comes to supernatural apparitions like professed sightings of the Virgin Mary, weeping Madonnas or bleeding crucifixes.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
They send the more damaged wood to another prison in Rome, where prisoners make crucifixes for rosaries.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
But thanks in large part to a memorable head-swiveling cinematic character, Roman collars and crucifixes have long cornered a unique place in the American image of exorcism.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
Jimbo recalls that “there were crucifixes everywhere” in his studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Bannerets, crucifixes, gargoyles, water-spouts, weather-cocks, spires and belfries crowded the angled roofs—roofs going this way and that, sometimes of red tile, sometimes of mossy stone, sometimes of slate.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
