Tradition holds that Peter was crucified in Rome, and St Peter's Basilica was erected over his tomb.
Kneeling before an image of the Crucified, he was filled with great fervor and consolation.
It also pacifies businessmen who claim they are being crucified by a strong rupee.
Preaching Christ crucified will increasingly come across as a stumbling block to lukewarm Christians and folly to secularists.
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When the apparition disappeared, Francis found on his body wounds resembling those which Jesus received when he was crucified.
It is tucked away off Via Appia Antica, the ancient road where 6, 000 of Spartacus' slave army were crucified in 71 BC.
For him, a statue of Zeus enthroned or Christ crucified would have been an impediment to belief, a mere lump of shaped matter.
Anyone that relied on so-called value-at-risk models, which purport to show how much a firm could lose over a certain period, has been crucified.
Grubman has been flayed in Congress, crucified by the Spitzer crusade, ousted from his job at Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney and ambushed by a relentless CNBCcamera crew.
Between sessions with the patriarchs, Benedict toured and prayed at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be located on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried.
He is due to celebrate mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, on the site where Jesus is said to have been crucified, buried and resurrected.
The cycle tells the story, drawn from Jacobus de Voragine's 13th-century compendium of saints' lives, "The Golden Legend, " of the wood used for the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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He quoted from Benedict when he told the cardinals that while they are "princes" of the church, their leader is the crucified Christ, a further admonition against attachment to temporal power.
Poles are a messianic people, many of whom see their country as having been a martyr among European nations, crucified over and over so that the continent could be purified and saved.
Cisco with its recent announcement that they are focusing back on their core router business, they would have been crucified by the shareholders if they try to acquire either Nokia or RIM now.
Not least because in the dead man's pudgy hands he finds a gold cross, ornately worked and made to hang upside down in the way St Peter was said to have been crucified.
In the seventh century BC, when the slave revolt led by Spartacus was defeated, 6, 000 slaves were crucified and left dangling on crosses that lined the road from here to Capua, 132 miles away.
One typically head-snapping juxtaposition places a proto-Cubist Picasso painting of a head near a 16th-century French wood sculpture of the crucified Christ and those are just two objects among more than two dozen on that wall.
During the service, the pope washes and kisses the feet of 12 people to replicate the Bible's account of Jesus Christ's gesture of humility towards his 12 apostles on the night before he was crucified.
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Also striking are the photographs of religious statuary, notably a crucified Christ, which underline the empathy the impoverished Mexicans in Strand's photos must have felt for those whose suffering was as great as their own.
During Thursday's intimate service at Casal del Marmo, the Pope washed and kissed the feet of 12 young detainees to replicate the Bible's account of Jesus Christ's gesture of humility towards his 12 apostles on the night before he was crucified.
One common theory has it that even if Mr Bradley does well in small, rich, well-educated New Hampshire, he will follow the path of other ideas-politicians, such as Gary Hart and Paul Tsongas, and be crucified once the race becomes more televisual.
In other words, the 2008 trillion dollar derivatives blowout and the resulting destruction of the US job and housing market was not caused by one man like Soros, but by loose regulation over time that markets took advantage of, and got crucified for.
So much is red in the surroundings, that the eye takes unexpected pleasure in anything that is not red - the gold paint on the inside of the church, the deep blue of Mary's cloak, as she holds the crucified body of Jesus in her arms.
The other mistake that has preyed on my mind has to do with the VW Jetta, which I crucified in a column a few months ago as being de-contented, dumbed-down and sadly cheapened Americanized, as part of Volkswagen of America's master plan to increase sales by lowering the brand's price point.
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