crucifixion
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Think of the centurions who cast lots for Christ’s robes on the day of the Crucifixion in 33 A.D.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Father Luget, Mr Halliday says, claimed to have seen the light over a hillock in the rectory garden and to have seen the Crucifixion above it and the Virgin Mary kneeling before it.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2023
On that day in 1st-century Judea, Resurrection and Ascension followed Crucifixion.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022
Born in Dublin in 1909, Bacon didn’t see artistic success until he painted his wartime nightmare of twisted gargoyles, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2019
The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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World Religions
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The Roman and Byzantine Empires, Lessons 1–2
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