cross of Calvary

American  

noun

1. a Latin cross with a representation of steps beneath it.

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cross of Calvary

The tusks lend the cross an undulating vitality, repeated in the budding motif of the Garden of Eden's Tree of Life, then supposed to be the material of the original cross of Calvary.

From Time Magazine Archive

We left him beside the road and walked slowly beneath the arch of trees toward the mountain whose summit was crowned by the white cross of Calvary graveyard.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

He looked in faith to the cross of Calvary, trusting in the all-sufficient propitiation for sin.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon

Almost before the indignation rose up within me, there came to counteract it a vision of the cross of Calvary, and of Him who said, “Father, forgive them!”

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

The Scottish legend says they tremble because the cross of Calvary was made from an aspen tree.

From Some Winter Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John