Then Herakleios donned plain clothes, and without further hindrance, carried the Cross of Christ into the church. In a sermon on the Exaltation of the Cross, Saint Andrew of Crete (July 4) says: “The Cross is exalted, and everything true is gathered together, the Cross is exalted, and...
The full-length saints stand in frontal poses, wearing sleeved tunics and cloaks, each holding the cross of his martyrdom in his left hand. page from the catalogue The other side is more famous. It was used as the front of the catalogue of the Thessaloniki exhibition in 1997. It shows...
41 In the same passage in which Ibn Sa‘īd describes the strict prohibition against Christians and Muslims car-rying palm branches and processing together, he also portrays the customs prior to the prohibition, stating: “The cross was carried publicly. The governor of the town rode (on ...