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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forAdoration of The CrossA ceremony observed in the Church of Rome on Good Friday. St. Thomas said that the cross was to be adored with supreme worship (latria), and Benedict XIV quotes a verse of Lactantlus which speaks of " adoring the cross." On Good Friday a crucifix being unveiled, priest and people kiss it and adore it on their knees. It is explained that the cross may be adored as representing something else. In this way " we may give to the cross relatively --i.e., to the cross as carrying on our mind to Christ—the same honor which we give to Christ absolutely, i.e., in himself. See Cath. Dict.; Prot. Dict. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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