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Arnulf of Leuven

Arnulf is also the probable author of the Membra Jesu Nostri, a cycle of seven poems, each a meditation on one of the wounds of the crucified Christ.

Athelstaneford

On the eve of a battle between an army of the Picts and invading Angles from Northumbria in 832AD, Saint Andrew, who was crucified on a diagonal cross, came to the Pictish King Óengus II in a vision promising victory.

Canada's Golgotha

In 2002 British documentary maker Iain Overton alleged that the crucified soldier did exist, and named him as Sergeant Harry Band (not "Brant").

Coat of arms of Hungary

Another not-so-well-known theory for the triple hills is that it symbolizes the hills of Calvary (Golgotha), where Jesus was crucified.

Coinage Act of 1873

This period is best remembered by the cross of gold speech that was made by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 6, 1896, in which he expressed his hope that mankind would not be crucified upon a cross of gold.

Cuernavaca Cathedral

The emperor of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, offered to spare his life as he had not preached Christianity, but Philip refused and was crucified with the others.

Holy Myrrhbearers Cathedral

The Holy Myrrhbearers Cathedral holds on to a shrine with the relics of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, who is believed to have been crucified near the Maiden Tower in what is now downtown Baku, Azerbaijan.

Iain Overton

The Crucified Soldier refers to the widespread story of an Allied soldier serving in the Canadian Corps who may have been crucified with bayonets on a barn door or a tree, while fighting on the Western Front during World War I.

Mar-Zutra III

Mar-Zutra II had been crucified on the bridge of Mahuza by King Kavadh I for trying to obtain by force of arms a sort of political independence for the Jews of Babylon.

Passing Through Gethsemane

The title is derived from the garden of Gethsemane in which Jesus waited and prayed before he was arrested and crucified, as Brother Edward recounts in the episode.

Restoration of Peter

According to a tradition found in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Peter was crucified upside-down.

S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago

However the Senate being in power has the better of the rioters and Caesar together with Antonio and the rebels are crucified along the Via Appia.

The Eagle in the Sand

Bannus, a local tribesman, is brewing up rebellion amongst the followers of Jehoshua, who was crucified in Jerusalem some seventeen years earlier.


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