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Click through to see depictions of Jesus throughout history: The discovery came after researchers evaluated drawings found in various archaeological sites in Israel.
The Koine Greek terms used in the New Testament of the structure on which Jesus died are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον).These words, which can refer to many different things, do not indicate the precise shape of the structure; scholars have long known that the Greek word stauros and the Latin word crux did not uniquely mean a cross, but could also be used to refer to one, and ...
The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a group of Indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. They are renowned for their form of prayer that involves running for extended periods of time.
Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...
Advocates of the traditional form of the Stations ending with the body of Jesus being placed in the tomb say the Stations are intended as a meditation on the atoning death of Jesus, and not as a complete picture of his life, death, and resurrection. Another point of contention, at least between some ranking liturgists and traditionalists, is ...
Christ of Saint John of the Cross; Christ on the Cross (Murillo) Crucifix (Cimabue, Arezzo) Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce) The Crucifixion (Cranach) Cristo de Chircales; Crucified Christ (Cosmè Tura) Crucifix of Pisa; Crucifixion (Tintoretto) Crucifixion (Titian) Crucifixion (1933) Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) The Crucifixion (Margkazinis)
Christ Crucified by Giotto, c. 1310. According to Christian tradition, the True Cross is the real cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.. It is related by numerous historical accounts and legends that Helen, the mother of Roman emperor Constantine the Great, recovered the True Cross at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, when she travelled to the Holy Land in the years 326–328.
The original phenomena of this type were acheropites: images of major Christian icons such as Jesus and the Virgin Mary that were believed to have been created by supernatural means. The word acheropite comes from the Greek ἀχειροποίητος , meaning "not created by human hands", and the term was first applied to the Turin Shroud and ...