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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 ...
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."
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.
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 Irish antiquarian George Petrie (d. 1866) was the first to write about the crozier's discovery, and based on his sources placed the find-spot as in the "Temple Ciarán", a now ruined oratory on the grounds of Clonmacnoise monastery, County Offaly.
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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.
This is a glossary of terms used within the Catholic Church.Some terms used in everyday English have a different meaning in the context of the Catholic faith, including brother, confession, confirmation, exemption, faithful, father, ordinary, religious, sister, venerable, and vow.