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Offline Dolores

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« on: February 13, 2015, 12:47:13 PM »
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    • Does anyone know why it is that when the Crucifixion is depicted (either in a crucifix or in an icon) in the West, Christ is depicted as having a single nail through both of His feet, while in the East (both Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox), Christ is depicted as having one nail through each foot?  Is there any significance to this?

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    Offline Sigismund

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    « Reply #1 on: February 13, 2015, 09:53:24 PM »
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    • It is a matter of artistic convention in both cases.  It doesn't mean anything more than that.  
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    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir
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