A staff resembling a shepherd's crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office ceremonial staff in Christianity.
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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