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Meanings of crosier in inglês
A staff resembling a shepherd's crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office ceremonial staff in Christianity.
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Examples for "crozier"
Examples for "crozier"
1
The Roman lituus, the chief ensign of the augurs, became the crozier.
2
When did Irish Catholics finally stop fearing the belt of the crozier?
3
Torquil lowered his crozier and mopped his face with his priestly sleeve.
4
He stretched out his crozier and tapped the girl's outstretched palm with it.
5
The belt of the bishop's crozier could and did end careers.
1
Frequent notices of this pastoral staff are found in ancient Irish history.
2
Inside the coffin was the pastoral staff, but no ring or vestments.
3
Bishop Williams gave the benediction, holding his pastoral staff.
4
The figure of the bishop is vested in cope and mitre, and has a pastoral staff.
5
Bedales is holding a conference in May for pastoral staff and students looking at wellbeing issues.
1
Then the ferns shot up their fronds, rolled like a bishop's staff.
2
Now the bishop stood up in his choir-robes, with bishop's coif upon his head, and bishop's staff in his hands.
Usage of crosier in inglês
1
The archbishop crushed it unwittingly in the hand that held the crosier.
2
His left hand, over which hangs the maniple, has a rich crosier.
3
Striking the crosier on the floor three times, he gestured to the board.
4
He wore a jewelled chasuble, and held a silver crosier in one hand.
5
Then the crosier was blessed, and presented to the elected archbishop with these words.
6
The monk laid aside his mitre and crosier and said,-
7
The bishop stretched out his stained-glass crosier and tapped the nun on the shoulder.
8
I was the crosier-bearer to his Holiness Bishop Christopher.
9
Do I not feel the crosier on my breast?
10
The tiny fellow in charge of the mitre and crosier peeps out with a mischievous countenance.
11
The bishop wears a miter and holds in his left hand the pastoral staff, or crosier.
12
Declan, his crosier in his hand, pursued the receding tide and his disciples followed after him.
13
They have found a tomb of an abbot, with a crosier, at length on the stone.
14
His Pastoral Staff had ever been a crosier.
15
The abbot of La Trappe, leaning on his crosier, waited, unmoving, a few paces from her.
16
Sceptre, crosier, sheep-crook is none there for him.
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português
Crosier through the time