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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, there are different traditions surrounding the use of the processional cross.Traditional practice, still followed among churches of the Russian or other Slavic traditions, is that the use of the processional cross during the normal cycle of divine services is a primatial privilege, and will only be done when the Patriarch or First Hierarch is serving.
Processional is anything of, and or pertaining to a procession. Processional may also refer to: Processional, a 1925 play by John Howard Lawson; Roman Processional, the tenth chapter of the Roman Ritual; Processional cross, a cross or crucifix held during a Christian procession; Processional walkway, a ceremonial walkway
A Good Friday Procession to the "Cuevita" during Holy Week in Iztapalapa. The Passion Play of Iztapalapa is an annual event during Holy Week in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. It one of the oldest and most elaborate passion plays in Mexico as well as the best known, covered by media both in Mexico and abroad.
The Cloisters Cross (front) The Cloisters Cross (reverse) The Cloisters Cross (also known as the Bury St Edmunds Cross), is a complex 12th-century ivory Romanesque altar cross or processional cross. It is named after The Cloisters, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which acquired it in 1963.
Every Procession revolves in that big circle, so that at 7 in the morning every one would return in its own starting point. Every procession is led by a crossbearer carrying a cross. The role of the crossbearer is an immense honor on the island, and is determined as many as 20 years in advance.
The stately, mournful piece was played at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021, as well as the procession to the lying in state of the Queen Mother and the funeral of King Edward VII.
Processions played a prominent part in the great festivals of Greece, where they were always religious in character. The games were either opened or accompanied by more or less elaborate processions and sacrifices, while processions from the earliest times formed part of the worship of the old nature gods, as those connected with the cult of Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later ...
A crucifer carrying a cross. A crucifer or cross-bearer is, in some Christian churches (particularly the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheran Churches, Anglican Communion, and Methodist Churches), a person appointed to carry the church's processional cross, a cross or crucifix with a long staff, during processions at the beginning and end of the service. [1]