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Holding The Cross
I have a large and very old bronze Crucifix – pictured above – which I think is somewhere over one hundred years old. I suspect it was once in the possession of a member of a religious order, given the quality of it and also the heavy chain originally attached to it, indicating that it was to be worn around the neck – only a religious would have worn such a large Crucifix. I find myself wondering who that religious was and where they went with the Crucifix, what they did and how it inspired them. This Crucifix takes pride of place in my little oratory, where it hangs above…