I don't know if you can explain this statement in another way , but I don't get it. Isn't the Corpus supposed to be hanging vertically from the horizontal cross beam? Isn't that correct?
I'm obviously not seeing what you are, but I'd like to understand.
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I didn't want to duplicate the OP's image again since it's already seen twice on this first page.
But since you're the author, you're the one with this picture hanging in your home.
So you ought to know what it looks like.
Do you mean to say that in all the times you've seen it you didn't realize it was facing downward?
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The crossbeam of a crucifix is always horizontal (unless some modern wise guy shows it otherwise).
But the Dali image has the front face of the crossbeam facing downwards.
As in down -- down to earth? Terrestrial (maybe Jesus was not terrestrial)? Toward the underworld?
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It's just weird.
What would you think if the priest during Benediction bent over to face the floor with the monstrance?
Do you understand yet?
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There is a known fact in post-Dali sculpture (if you could call it that) where the crucifix (as it were) faced downward.
It was used at a big outdoor "mass" with JPII at the helm, in Italy.
Then the cross (wasn't really a crucifix, had no INRI) was moved to a public park.
Some years later, while a large group of children gathered under it, it fell down.
One disabled man wasn't quick enough to run away so he got crushed to death.
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Maybe you remember the story?
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April 24th, 2014, 9 years after JPII died, a huge cross erected in a public park bearing the name of JPII, fell down killing a man.
Perhaps this should tell the world that God doesn't approve of crosses facing the ground, or of the so-called canonization of JPII?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/24/john-paul-ii-crucifix-kills-man_n_5206712.htmlJust two days before the canonization of Pope John Paul II, a giant crucifix erected in his honor collapsed in Italy, crushing a young man and killing him,
according to ANSA.
The 30-meter (98-foot) high wooden
crucifix [cross] fell down during an event near the village of Cevo, in northern Italy, instantly killing the 21-year-old man, Marco Gusmini. The Jesus Christ figure attached to the cross is six meters high [if it were positioned upright, but it was lying face down so that it was only about 3 meters tall -- but after it fell, it was just two meters tall] and weighs 600 kg,
according to AFP.
Witnesses reported that the victim was part of a visiting group of young Catholics, and another person was hospitalized for minor injuries after the cross fell.
The curved
crucifix [cross] was designed by sculptor Enrico Job in honor of John Paul II’s visit to Brescia in northern Italy’s Lombardy region in 1998 [see pic at bottom]. It was installed in a scenic location near Cevo in 2005. The unusual curve of the
crucifix [cross] was intended to evoke the scars of WWII,
according to AFP. [The "scars of WWII?" How does that work? Some scars are not curved.]
The cross before it fell looked pretty bad too:
You know the Italian engineers were worried about it falling down because you can see the bracing cables behind it.
The wood curving base of the cross broke right in the middle of the curve on the left side, right where erosion by rain and sunshine would be the worst and the stress from the 600 Kg corpus plus all that heavy wood certainly should have been a danger sign.
Even before it was in this park, in its first installation it was a cross facing downward:
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The above image comes from a "Chiesa viva" site (Fr. Luigi Villa) with the headline:
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The Diabolical Secret of the Crucifix of Cevo