The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological . t shunned publicity. The reasonwas found in a desire to avoid furnishing fuel toPagan bias, especially since the cross was then incommon use, like the gallows for the punishmentof felons. There are six types of crosses: Latin, whenthe transverse beam cuts the upright shaft nearthe top; Greek, when two equal beams cut eachother in the middle; St. Andrews, like the Greekcross; Egyptian or tau-shaped; Maltese, worn bythe Knights of Malta, formed by four equilateraltriangles whose apices meet in o
The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological . t shunned publicity. The reasonwas found in a desire to avoid furnishing fuel toPagan bias, especially since the cross was then incommon use, like the gallows for the punishmentof felons. There are six types of crosses: Latin, whenthe transverse beam cuts the upright shaft nearthe top; Greek, when two equal beams cut eachother in the middle; St. Andrews, like the Greekcross; Egyptian or tau-shaped; Maltese, worn bythe Knights of Malta, formed by four equilateraltriangles whose apices meet in one point; Russian,having two transverse beams at the top and onenear the foot, slightly inclinedto favor a tradition that in theCrucifixion one foot was lifteda little higher than the other. A cross with two transoms atthe top, one longer than theother, represented the board ofthe inscription and the cross-baron which the head rested. Thecross with three transoms calledPapal is the fiction of , so reliable an authority processional crossas Father Thurston, S. J., re- 394 The Mass and Vestments cords that these double and triple-barred crosseshave for the most part only a heraldic that represent the arms of the Lord asonly partly extended are called Jansenistic,because Cornelius Jansens of Belgium taught thefalse doctrme that Christ died only for the goodand not for all. Give summary of the approved uses of theAltar Crucifix? (1) A cross with figure (crucifix) must beplaced at the middle of every altar, on whichMass is celebrated (Rubr. Gen. Miss. Tit. XX.)Except in cases of positive necessity Mass may notbe celebrated without it. (DeHerdt, vol. I, n. 181, II). (2) Its proper place is between the candlesticksand in a straight line with them {Caer. I, cap. XII, n. 11). To obtain this position itmay be placed upon the tabernacle unless a canopyis permanently erected over the tabernacle, whichserves as a throne for the exp
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