McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Cross, Screen (Or Rood)

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Cross, Screen (Or Rood)

Subjects in this Topic:

Cross, Memorial
Cross, Metaphorical Sense of
Cross, Ordeal Of The
Cross, Orders of the in the Roman Church
Cross, Papal
Cross, Pectoral
Cross, Red Or Blue
Cross, Reliquary
Cross, Robert
Cross, Screen (Or Rood)
Cross, Sign Of The
Cross, Sign Of The (2)
Cross, Walter, A.M
Cross, Way Of The
Cross, Weeping
Cross, William
Cross, William G
Cross-alphabets
Cross-bearer

A cross on or above the altar is one of the legal ornamenta of the same; and the cross, with the figure of our Lord attached, can be erected in sculpture over the altar, or as an important part of the rood-screen. Anciently, almost every English church owned its rood-cross, with the figures of Mary and John on either side.