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2. Christian cross - Wikipedia

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   The Christian cross, seen as representing the crucifixion of Jesus, is a symbol of Christianity. [1] ... A wooden cross at Coventry Cathedral, ...

3. Christian cross variants - Wikipedia

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   Christian crosses are used widely in churches, on top of church buildings, on bibles, in heraldry, in personal jewelry, on hilltops, and elsewhere as an attestation or other symbol of Christianity. Crosses are a prominent feature of Christian cemeteries, either carved on gravestones or as sculpted stelae.

4. Instrument of Jesus' crucifixion - Wikipedia

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   250AD, Rome), responding to the pagan jibe that Christians worship wooden crosses – an indication of how the cross symbol was already associated with Christians – denies the charge and then retorts that the cross shape (a crossbeam placed on an upright) is honoured even by pagans in the form of their standards and trophies and is in any ...

5. Cross in the Woods - Wikipedia

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   The largest Christian cross in the world stands at 492 feet (150m), located in the Valley of the Fallen, Spain. The Crucifix has become one of the most famous and most frequently visited shrines in all of Michigan. [2] The highlight of the shrine is a large wooden cross and bronze figure of Christ by sculptor Marshall Fredericks. The site also ...

6. Summit cross - Wikipedia

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   What summit crosses may express can be exemplified by the crosses erected and re-erected on the comparatively insignificant Butte de Warlencourt, a pre-Christian tumulus on the Somme, only some 20m above the surrounding terrain but a scene of intense fighting during World War I, when it was the objective of costly and fruitless British attacks ...

7. Crucifix - Wikipedia

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   Eastern Christian blessing crosses will often have the Crucifixion depicted on one side, and the Resurrection on the other, illustrating Eastern Orthodox theology's understanding of the Crucifixion and Resurrection as two intimately related aspects of the same act of salvation.