Talk:Crucifix
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What exactly IS a crucifix? I'm not Christian, sorry for my ignorance. But is it the cross WITH the body of Christ? That's what I thought. --Dmerrill
Yep, in the technical usage of the Roman CAtholic church a cross is a cross, while a crucifix has a corpus (Latin, 'body') fixed to it. The entry needs to be disambiguated. --MichaelTinkler.
- Have you noticed that Cross has a link to Christian cross, which redirects to this article? There should probably be some actual text at the Christian cross article, instead of redirecting straight here. I didn't set up the redirects, but I've been wondering when someone would notice and object. Guess that would be me now.... --Wesley
Just out of curiousity, if someone wants to make their own crucifix is there any place where a corpus may be obtained? I ask because I had a hard time finding one when I went to make a crucifix last year, only one store had one and it was about three feet tall and was several hundred dollars. I couldn't find any on the internet either in the size or cost range I wanted. I wound up carving the corpus myself - easier said than done because at the time I had very little experience carving stuff.
JesseG 19:58, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
