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is usually represented as holding the Saviour’s crown of throns and the cross; sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim’s staff, and sometimes with the standard of the cross, the allusion in all cases being to his crusades.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.