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Updated: May 26, 2025
No one who has visited, however casually, a Russian city can doubt this; the icon hangs in the station office, and men bow to it, the cabman crosses himself ere he drives over a bridge; shrines are interposed between shops, many of which latter are devoted to the sale of crucifixes, swinging lamps and sacred pictures; green cupolas and golden crosses gleam against the sky, look which way you will.
From Munich he passed through Augsburg and Ulm, on his way to Stuttgard. At the entrances of towns and villages, he saw large crucifixes; and on the fronts of many houses, coarse paintings and images of saints. In Gunzburg three priests in black were slowly passing down the street, and women fell on their knees to receive their blessing.
First rode a stout muleteer, leading a pack-mule laden with the provisions of the party, together with a few cheap crucifixes and hawks' bells.
At my hotel in Alt Oetting, crucifixes, holy water, and burning tapers are situated on the different stairway landings.
At the next fete day she repaired to the church of Notre Dame de bon Encontre, where the inhabitants of half a dozen of the neighbouring villages had assembled, with priests and crucifixes, garlands and tapers, banners and angels. The latter, girls about to be confirmed, walked in procession and sang the Angelus at the appropriate hours.
But by this time the Professor had gained his feet, and was holding towards him the envelope which contained the Sacred Wafer. The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside the tomb, and cowered back. Further and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced. The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black cloud sailed across the sky.
There were still several cases of crucifixes of all sizes, having the appearance of silver but were found to be of iron, covered with the thinnest tinsel. The priests pleaded hard to have them preserved. "No," said Captain Beauport, firmly; "I will be no party to your impostures.
First she showed us a whitewashed parlor, decorated with a grim picture or two and some crucifixes and other religious emblems, where, upon stiff old chairs, the sisters sit and work.
Greeted on Arrival in the Ruined City of Ypres by a Furious Fusillade I Film the Cloth Hall and Cathedral, and Have a Narrow Escape A Once Beautiful Town Now Little More Than a Heap of Ruins Arras a City of the Dead Its Cathedral Destroyed But Cross and Crucifixes Unharmed. To Ypres! This was the order for the day. The news gave me a thrill of excitement.
'Well, if people will purchase crucifixes and nothing else, they must be supplied. Commerce civilises man. 'Who is this? exclaimed the Consul Pasqualigo. A couple of horsemen, well mounted, but travel-worn, and followed by a guard of Bedouins, were coming up the Via Dolorosa, and stopped at the house of Hassan Nejid. ''Tis the English prince, said Barizy of the Tower.
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