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Generally, how­ the complete satisfaction of those He was both exalted and incor­ who have endeavored to solve it. ruptible like the cedars o f Lebanon; be true, however, that no portion ever, the ordinary height of crosses Conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis WE SPECIALIZE IN AUTOMOBILE Diverse are the opinions and con­ olive, because of His abundance of of the cross was above the trans­ was such that those who were fixed clusions put forward in these at­ Divine grace or unction, and palm, versal beam, where, then, was the upon them were able to place their INSURANCE^BROAD PROTEC­ tempts. Some are of the opinion because of His jubilant conquest scroll of Caesar, of which the feet on the ground. Some writers that the cross was formed from of death. Evangelists speak—“ a superscrip­ suppose that the cross upon which TIO N INCLUDING FINANCIAL the very wood of the "tree of good Notwithstanding these opinion^, tion written over Him” — placed? Our Divine Master was nailed, be­ and■ evil,”.................... the fruit of whichA l­ af­ probable and weighty as they may St. Jerome, S t Paulinus, Rufi- cause of the affirmation that peo­ RESPONSIBILITY. fected the status of man so disas­ seem to us, the learned theologdnn, nus, and, before them all, Tertul- ple of high rank were granted this trously. Yet others say that the Jacob de Sainte-Beuve, remarks lian, along with many .other Fa­ privilege in those times, was of branches broken from the parent they have more the aspect of ar­ thers of the Church, are of the be­ greater height than those of the trees on the first Palm Sunday, tists’ dreanis than the conviction lief that beams A»f the cross of two thieves. But this opinion is when the multitude escorted Our of thinking theologians. And, in Jesus were so formed as to make as unfounded as the opinion of Divine Lord into Jerusalem, were fact, it does seem highly improb­ a cross with four ends or extremi­ those who surmised that the cross Cleveland & Miller, Inc. the material used in the making able that the Jews should take it ties, and they believe this because was other than one with four ex­ of the cross. upon themselves to select different the crass appears in this form in tremities or other than the Latin 834 Gas and Electric Bldg. Venerable Bede says that the kinds of wood for the cross on very ancient monuments and draw­ cross. Moreover, as we know, a cross was formed of four kinds of which they were to nail the hated ings. They also attach a tender miracle was necessary for St. Hel­ “ Nazarene.” At least, we may be DENVER MAIN 4291 wood, cypress, cedar, pine, and box­ signification to these four extremi­ ena to distinguish which was the sure that such thoughts and mo­ wood. Some Fathers of the Holy ties of the crass, believing them to true one of the three crosses, they tives as these mentioned above were Church, St. Bernard, St. Vincent be a sign that Jesus Christ re­ being similar in appearance. To Ferrer, St. Bonaventpre, and St. far from the passion-blinded minds deemed the world in its four cor­ be sure, some paintings of the Bernardine of Siena affirm that the of His executioners. ners. Besides, from the days of Middle Ages portray those who St. Gregory Nazianzen and some the first Christians, who were al­ removed the Body of Our Lord W est Sixteenth Avenue, Comer Quitman Street, other spiritual writers have ad­ from the cross, using ladders to most contemporaries of the epoch Denver, Take Larimer Street Car vanced, at least in our opinion, the of the Redemption, tradition repre­ do so, but it must be remarked that SCOTT BATTERY COMPANY Easter Greetings most probable hypotheisjs: he con­ sented the cross as one with four these conceptions are but the Located in the Most Beautiful Part of the City, tends that the wood of Our Lord’s extremities, like the Latin cross. imaginings of their creators. Far From Noise and Strife crass must have been one of the Also, in. favor of this common The most credible .opinion of all . A : basest and most despised of the idea that the cross was in the shape is that the three crosses were some TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES BATTERIES times, “ evergreen or oak.” Others of this Latin cross, we recall to eight or nine feet in height, with are of the same opinion, as Justus mind the fact that many crosses perhaps a foot or two buried in Ambulance Service Day or Night Lipsius in his work, De Cruce, al­ of ^ s,k in d were found among the tbe ground for. stability. The trans­ though alleging perhaps different bones of the martyrs and unearthied versal would then be proportionate and SERVICE reasons. Justus Lipsius thinks oak in the different catacombs— an ar- —being perhaps seven or eight m w uBwk’ beeauBc -tt ’was com­ wment of'tnrfientable weight. We ■feet in length. No one, howeverr is mon and abundant there. These kiiow, too, that St.'^eter, deeming bound to believe this or that opin­ 1200 BANNOCK 5TREET opinions have been given because himself unworthy to be crucified ion, for they are, after all, only of the fact that the authentic par­ in the same manner as was his opinions. A great theologian has ticles of the Holy Cross, which are Divine Master, begged to be cruci­ wisely said: “ In historical matter K i & I I M preserved in Rome, Cologne, Man­ fied with the cross inverted—^this of this kind, we ought not entirely tua, Paris, Assisi, and Caravaca, were hot possible, unless the cross disregard current opinion as long are identical in weight, color, and of Jesus had been the Latin cross. as nothing obliges us to accept fun­ Smart Money is Buying density with those proper to the Concerning the height of the damental and weighty reasons.” oak-tree. Moreover, we know that KEEP MEN 4T WORK the Jews were accustomed to use 2831 E. 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