From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9019 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 9019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Attractive Asian Ladies ["Meet Asian Beauties" Subject: Attractive Asian Ladies Attractive Asian Ladies http://flatbellyes.buzz/hwXvfbIEjFjCLgccq1wLJiWl23j3NbK4FX-h3Pa5pzZ-sVHCXg http://flatbellyes.buzz/uYXAyNf_SB4Z4FatOvf5WkcAGPt-RU1xEWuTz2XvJfFW1onrMw Like 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 principal vehicle of power, a kind of spiritual electrode through which he conveyed the holy energy by which he wrought the innumerable miracles attributed to him". In a 2004 survey, the Clonmacnoise Crozier was one of an estimated twenty (or fewer) largely intact Insula ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9019 **********************************************