Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 219
ens (Apol. 55). Tertullian alsoin birds with outstretched wings.f St. Cyril explains at length that the symbol was usedas a memorial of the mercies and duties of the cross.| * I Apol. 12 and 16; and De Orat. xi. 28. t Mignes edit. vol. iii. 327. \ De Cor. c, 3 ; Ad. Uxor, ii, 5. SVA/BOLIS.ir, 197… … Wall-palnting, from the Cemetery of Pontlanus, Rome. to Gentiles foolishness, and to exhibit it as a religiousemblem was to provoke ridicule and insult. It first appears, in the form of a plain Greek cross,in an epitaph on the monumental stone of Xene, thewife of Basileo, in St. Lawrences, Verona…
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