During my time in North Carolina, I remember having a conversation with a woman in the Episcopal parish I was attending. She was expressing her delight at a certain processional cross that lacked a ...
In contemporary times it is nothing to walk into a church and see a cross: sometimes Jesus is on it and sometimes it is empty. Modern Christians wear it around their neck, on their clothing, bumper ...
The reliquary, identified as a Lignum Crucis—Latin for “wood of the Cross”—was traced back to the Cathedral of San Juan, where it had been housed since 1908. According to documentation recovered ...