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And though they all dispersed and left him there with no other follower than EDWARD GRYME, his faithful cross-bearer, he was as firm then, as ever he had been in his life.

A Child's History of England 2007

Lastly, the members of a brotherhood for burying the dead: hideously masked, and attired in shabby black robes, white at the skirts, with the splashes of many muddy winters: escorted by a dirty priest, and a congenial cross-bearer: come hurrying past.

Pictures from Italy 2007

You can't really tell from the online version of the picture that appeared on the front page of Saturday's Boston Globe showing the Good Friday procession by parishioners from Trinity Church (Episcopalian), Old South Church (UCC), and Church of the Advent (Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian), but the cross-bearer is wearing a Red Sox hat.

Philocrites: Red Sox theology watch, Good Friday edition. 2005

I distributed, smirking, bowed tact fully to the cross-bearer who was leading the peasantry in another psalm, and hastened after my mistress like a good little minion.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

You can't really tell from the online version of the picture that appeared on the front page of Saturday's Boston Globe showing the Good Friday procession by parishioners from Trinity Church (Episcopalian), Old South Church (UCC), and Church of the Advent (Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian), but the cross-bearer is wearing a Red Sox hat.

Philocrites: March 2005 Archives 2005

The bishop in purple, his canons in scarlet, his cross-bearer, his chaplains and singing-men, the bearer of his mitre, his ring on a cushion; after these the archdeacon and his chaplains, the clergy of the city, heads of religious orders, representatives of the civil arm, Can

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

The deacon, in his dalmatic, with acolytes carrying tapers, with thurifer and cross-bearer, all in albs and unicles, went in procession to the pulpit or the rood-loft, to sing this portion of the Gospel.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

The triumphal standard of the Archbishop also was saved by the cross-bearer, who, mounted on a swift horse, plunged across the river, and leaving his horse, hid the standard in a dense thicket, and escaped in the twilight.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

FitzUrse, striking at Becket's head with his weapon; but the devoted cross-bearer warded off the blow with his own arm, which was badly cut, so that the Archbishop was but slightly injured.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

Following the bier was the cross-bearer, holding the emblem so high it was half lost in the shadows.

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