From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9016 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, May 25 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Only $19.99 on Norton AntiVirus Plus. ["Your virus protection" Subject: Only $19.99 on Norton AntiVirus Plus. Only $19.99 on Norton AntiVirus Plus. http://trandigod.buzz/JpxSa1pB-_vgGJ50bNNs2x5hPieAKh5QiROQj5bm0lPRqhKcfw http://trandigod.buzz/lU5N-CUl3KUPPCXsKgzdg8BjirHJ1DTdAOXD7ZG1EAu_QTn6pw ke all Insular croziers produced between c.?800 and 1200, the Clonmacnoise crozier is in the shape of an open shepherd's crook, a symbol of Jesus as the Good Shepherd leading his flock. Psalm 23 mentions a "rod" and a "staff", and from the 3rd century onwards Christian art often shows the shepherd holding a staff, including the 4th-century Sarcophagus of the Three Shepherds in the Vatican Museums in Rome, and the 6th-century Throne of Maximian at the Archiepiscopal Museum, Ravenna. The distinctive shape of Irish croziers evokes the function of shepherds' crooks in restraining wayward sheep, and according to the art historian Rachel Moss is similar to the crook-headed sticks used by cherubs to grasp vine-branches in Bacchic iconography. Croziers became symbols of status for bishops and abbots when Pope Celestine I linked them to the episcopal office in a 431 letter to bishops in Gaul. By tradition the first Irish example (lost since 1538) was the "Bachal Isu" (Staff of Jesus) given by God to Saint Patrick. According to the archaeologist A. T. Lucas, the croziers thus acted as "the ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9016 **********************************************