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A crozier on the coat of arms of Basel, Switzerland which was ruled by Prince-Bishops during the Middle Ages. A crozier or crosier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) [1] is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox ...
The veil may have arisen because abbots, unlike bishops, did not wear gloves when carrying an actual crosier. [6] Because the cross has similar symbolism, [34] the crosier was suppressed for cardinals and bishops by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969, [56] and is now used only on some corporate arms, and the personal arms of abbots and some ...
The Crosiers [1] or Brethren of the Cross [2] [3] or crutched friars [4] is a general name for several loosely related Catholic orders, mostly canons regular. [4] Their names derive from their devotion to the Holy Cross.
Their own sources, and mention of them in non-Crosier sources, usually call them "the Brethren of the Holy Cross," and the French and English words used for them, Croisiers and Crosiers, are derived from the French "croisé", [7] one of the words used for a crusader, and meaning "marked with a cross."
Crook of the late 11th century Clonmacnoise Crozier. National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, Kildare Street, Dublin. An Insular crozier is a type of processional bishop's staff [1] produced in Ireland and Scotland between 800 and 1200.
For this reason, the crook has been used as a religious symbol of care (particularly in difficult circumstances), including the Christian bishop's crosier. [1] In medicine, the term shepherd’s crook is used to describe a right coronary artery that follows an unusually high and winding route.
The Prosperous Crozier is a late 9th-century or early 10th-century Irish Insular type crozier that would have been used as a ceremonial staff for bishops and high-status abbots. [1]
crosier brought to him by an angel [6] Abraham of Arbela: sword near him: Abraham the Poor: an old hermit clothed in skins and sporting a blowing beard; in his cell with his niece Mary in an adjoining cell [7] Abundius: bishop with a stag, raising a dead child to life [8] Acathius of Melitene: crown of thorns: Acisclus