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George Heslop insists that his work is not meant to debase Christianity, though he admits that when a visitor took a bite out of a chocolate crucifix - at a gallery in Liverpool - that did smack of blasphemy. Clearly, this symbol still has the power to divide opinion, and some of the hottest debates about the meaning of the cross in recent years have been conducted not in churches, but in art galleries. Should the sign be made with the index AND middle fingers, because Jesus had two natures - God and Man? Should it be made with three fingers to signify the trinity? Or five, to number the wounds of Jesus on the cross? Even today, the Catholic west crosses itself from left shoulder to right, and the Orthodox east does it from right to left. But this symbol means so much to people, they still can't agree on how it should be done. Then it grew into the fuller gesture we have today - from head to heart, and shoulder to shoulder. Pope Benedict XVI delivers a blessing, Westminster Cathedral, 2010 At first, it was done with the thumb on the brow, on rising in the morning, settling to eat, starting a journey, going to bed. From the early centuries of Christianity, it's been a custom among Christians to make the sign of a cross on themselves with a hand. The belief that the cross can ward off evil and protect the wearer goes back a long way. I have it in my drawer but I don't wear it at the moment.Ĭampbell Gillespie, lightning strike survivor My mother's offered to get me a chain for it, but I'm just not awfully confident at the moment, for obvious reasons. But I'm alive - and I don't know who I have to thank for that, but I thank them, because I was an inch off checking out, y'know? I will start wearing it again one day. If it saved my life, why did the lightning strike it? So I'm in "catch 22" over the situation. In a way, the lightning was attracted to the cross. But things become much more clear in October. On the Monday I had a 6 hour operation where they rebuilt my face, basically. So they brought that up to the hospital, and I came out of the coma on the Friday. Unbeknown to me some of my friends had gone back to where it happened, and had found the gold cross which was lying on the concrete, not a mark on it. Ray resuscitated me and Norman held me in the recovery position while Ray ran for help. I landed head first into the concrete into a deep puddle, landed face first. Lightning attacked the gold cross round my neck that was given to me by my grandmother and put me six feet in the air. We were coming to the last part of the run on a Sunday morning, about 8.15 - a lovely, sunny summer's day, when I'm told it got dark all of a sudden and I was struck by lightning. It's been with us ever since, but what does it mean in a culture like ours? Why do we still want to wear it? Is it superstition, fashion, or faith? But after the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in the 4th Century, crucifixion was abolished as a punishment, and the cross was promoted as a symbol of the Son of God. At first, they were scared to display it publicly in case they were persecuted or mocked. The cross on which Jesus was executed 2000 years ago has been a symbol for his followers from very early on.
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What would Coca Cola or McDonalds give to own a symbol that countless millions of people wear round their necks every day?Ī symbol of gallantry. And of course, we wear it too, as earrings, as a necklace, stitched or studded onto leather and denim. Not just in churches and cathedrals, but in homes, in movies, paintings and music videos. This simple geometric shape is one of the most powerful symbols in the world. Then draw a horizontal line about two-thirds of the way up the vertical, from edge to edge of the paper. Draw a vertical line down to the foot of the page.
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Take a pen and place the nib at the top of a piece of paper, in the middle, where the title might go. Here Michael Symmons Roberts discusses the cross as ubiquitous symbol. While Good Friday marks the Passion of Christ and his crucifixion, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians also reflect on the cross as a symbol of salvation with the feast of The Triumph of the Cross on 14th September. Paradoxically a symbol of suffering and defeat but also of triumph and salvation, the cross is the universal Christian symbol, acknowledged by all denominations as the single visual identifier of their faith. Cross at Cape Kamenjack, Istria, Croatia.