"Oh Louis, dear Louis, life can never be grand until we are able to say'Self has been crucified with Christ!'

Such a heart was trained to be a leader of men, and to be crucified for a cause.

How must it have sobered them to carry, as good St Ignatius used to say of himself, Christ crucified in his heart.

There is the often-repeated history of the knight of the house of Guzman, who, being hidden one night in the house of a Jew whose daughter he loved, saw a child crucified at the time when the Christians celebrated the institution of the sacrifice of the eucharist.

The world was crucified to her; Christ was now her spouse.

Of the VERB:"The world is crucified unto me, and I [am crucified] unto the world.

He it was who had been known among the Jews many years before as a counsellor, "a good man, and a just," and who, when the Saviour was crucified on Calvary, had given his sepulchre to receive the body of the Lord.

Then Peter was commanded to be crucified as a stranger, and because that Paul was a citizen of Rome it was commanded that his head should be smitten off.

For if you do, then you believe that the Lord Christ, who was born of the Virgin Mary, and crucified under Pontius Pilate, is the Maker, the Master, the Ruler of this world, and of all worlds.

Betrayed by Judas in the garden, denied by Peter before the cock crew, crucified between thieves, and mourned for by a harlot, and then sent bound and bare, nothing changed, nothing altered, in Thy ignominious plight, forthward in the world's van the glory and symbol of a man's new ideaPity.

"How?" "As the Being who came down upon the earth, and suffered, and wept tears of blood, was buffeted and crowned with thorns, and crucified like a common, degraded slaveall because he loved us, and would not see us perish?

Some say he is the same Maternus who was crucified near Antioch at about the time when you were there; some say he isn't.

The corrupters and the corrupted of all ages outraged and tormented him for not having been crucified after their fashion, or for not having suffered precisely as they settled or imagined he should have done.

The mortification or crucifying of the old man, we would know, that there is such a principle of wickedness and enmity against God in man by nature, now since the fall, whereby the man is inclined to evil, and only to evil.

And, "though He was crucified through weakness," as the apostle saith, yet He "liveth by the power of God."