Crucifix
Crucifix is a term resulting from the Latin ecclesiastical of the 12th century crucifixus , takes part last of the verb crucifigere , which means “to fix on a cross”.
The crucifix is a Christian symbol pointing out the Crucifixion, i.e. the Crucifiement of Jesus-Christ, dead attached on a cross.
A crucifix essentially has the form of a Latin Croix, whose vertical bar is lengthened to the bottom and short upwards, and being able to carry in this upper part the initials INRI , acronym of Jesus de Nazareth, King of the Jews . An image of Jesus is fixed at the cross, showing the nails in its hands and its feet and a wound in its left side, in reference to the accounts of the Passion.
The crucifixes are generally fixed on the walls (of the houses or the religious buildings, sometimes in frontage for the latter). Certain small crucifixes (a few centimetres height) can rest on a support. Sometimes one hangs to the crucifixes a branch blessed.
As a religious symbol domesticates, some brought the crucifix closer to the Menorah (the candlestick with 7 branches) of the religion juive.
The Islam, which regards Jesus as the Messie, question that he died on the cross (see Jesus in Islam); of this fact the crucifix is for the Moslems an offense made with the holiness of Jesus.
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