crosier

• “Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down”

  The Monastery

• “Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “That was called a crosier, Daoud recalled, and was the cardinal's staff of office.”

  The Saracen: Land of the Infidel

• “The hat and robe will cost four thousand taels, and the crosier, which is of the rarest materials and manufacture, will be sold for the same amount.”

  Chinese Folk-Lore Tales

• “The crosier, which is another external ornament to the shield widely made use of by ecclesiastics, must not be confounded, as it often has been, with the processional cross of an archbishop.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ... ..”

  Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete

• “Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ....”

  Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

• “• We do appear to have set the cat among the pigeons with recent revelations that Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, barred Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the US church, and the first woman to lead an Anglican province, from wearing her mitre or carrying her bishop's crosier during a sermon at Southwark Cathedral.”

  The Guardian: Diary

• “Sinterklaas is dressed like the pope because he was historically a bishop in Myra Turkey, which explains for the mitre, dress, cape and crosier.”

  Christmas in July: Going Dutch

• “He is generally represented as a bishop, a crosier in his right hand, holding a miniature church of chased gold on the open palm of his left hand.”

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