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La Cruz Blanca Neutral was a volunteer infirmary and relief service founded by Elena Arizmendi Mejia in 1911. [1] [2] [3] She was enrolled at the School of Nursing of the Santa Rosa Hospital (now the School of Nursing at the University of the Incarnate Word) in San Antonio, Texas when the war broke out.
The Cruz Fidélitas was created by decree of then military archbishop Francisco Pérez González on July 25, 2007. The decree established the award as a decoration of the Archdiocese of Spain, rather than the military, and stipulated that only the current military archbishop had the authority to award grades of the Cruz Fidélitas. However, he ...
Procession of the Virgin, Cruz de Mayo, Sama de Grado, Asturias, Spain. Cross of the Hermandad de la Cruz de la Calle La Fuente. Rociana del Condado, Province of Huelva. Aguilar de la Frontera (Province of Córdoba). There is a procession of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios from the Iglesia de la Veracruz ("Church of the True Cross") in the ...
The Iglesia de la Santa Cruz is a parish church in Zona Romántica, Puerto Vallarta, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is dedicated to the holy cross, whose feast is on 3 May with a celebration named Fiesta de las Cruces. The holy cross is also the patron saint of the masons, who go on pilgrimage to the church on that day.
The most notable is the eighteenth-century La Iglesia de Santa Cruz. The plaza is also outlined on three sides and crossed diagonally by South McCurdy Road (New Mexico 583). Facing it are the church and four related features; four dwellings; one functioning and one nonfunctioning store; the Santa Cruz Irrigation District office; a vacant ...
St. John of the Cross OCD (Spanish: Juan de la Cruz; Latin: Ioannes a Cruce; né Juan de Yepes y Álvarez; 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Christian mystic, and Carmelite friar of Converso ancestry. [2] He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 37 Doctors of the Church.
A crux immissa or Latin cross. A Latin cross or crux immissa is a type of cross in which the vertical beam sticks above the crossbeam, [1] giving the cross four arms. Typically the two horizontal and upper vertical arm are the same length, although sometimes the vertical is shorter, however the lower vertical arm is always much longer than any other arm.
Cruz de la Parra; Baracoa. La Cruz de la Parra (English: The Cross of the Vinewood), or The Sacred Cross of Parra, as it is referred to in English, is a wooden cross which was erected by Christopher Columbus in Cuba after he had landed there during his First Voyage in 1492. It is considered the oldest artifact connected with Columbus to be ...