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| | The Crucifix: St Jerome, St Francis, Fra Angelico, Julian of Norwich and Georgia O'Keefe (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | I painted that Crucifix life-size in a time of great trouble, in silence, in prayer, in my convent, first the whites and reds, praying with the blood of the nails, hardly daring to put in the fls. |
 | | Handcarved by a carpenter, this Crucifix pays special attention to the wedges of wood holding the cross in place upon the ground, and to the nails nailed into the hands and feet of the carpenter's son, God's Son, garbing Him in the ermine robes of an Emperor. |
 | | To her that rough cross was real - infinitely more real that the silver and gold crucifix on the high altar, no doubt, or the pectoral cross on the bishop's breast. |
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