crucifix

• He then threw himself at the foot of a crucifix, and devoted himself to the service of God, vowing, as the most acceptable atonement for his errors, that he would employ the remainder of his days in the task of converting the Mussulmans to the Christian religion. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• To his eyes the crucifix was a fetich of surpassing power, and the mass a beneficent "medicine," or occult influence, of supreme efficacy. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• In the Middle Ages the crucifix was an instrument of religious suggestion to produce vivid apprehension of the death of Jesus. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• When the crucifix was done Giufŕ took it on his arm and carried it to the bishop. —  Italian Popular Tales
• This crucifix was a model of beauty when I started with it; on the way it began to swell with anger and the nearer your house I came the more it swelled, most of all when I was mounting your stairs. —  Italian Popular Tales

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