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A cross with Christ's figure on it, used in prayer and worship.
means A cross bearing a sculpted figure of the crucified Christ, used as an object of worship or devotion.
from From Latin crucifixus, 'fixed to a cross' — crux (cross) plus figere (to fasten). The word rode into most European languages straight from Church Latin, carrying its grim literalism intact long after the object itself became an ornament.
- roman execution
- designed to kill slowly, publicly, humiliatingly
- symbol flip
- shame symbol became faith's central image
- empty cross
- crucifix has body, plain cross does not
- constantine ban
- rome outlawed crucifixion around 337 AD