⭐ ANTIQUE JESUIT MISSIONARY CRUCIFIX ✞ EBONY 9" CINCTURE CROSS ☧ CATHOLIC BISHOP

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PLEASE VISIT EBAY STORE...
FINDING FAITH...
THANK YOU
A FANTASTIC
GIFT FOR
THE JESUIT SEMINARIAN, DEVOUT CATHOLIC OR THE COLLECTOR
IN AMAZING ANTIQUE 1880 CONDITION
JESUIT MISSIONARY
CINCTURE 'VOW' CRUCIFIX
9
"
LONG X 4-1/4'' CROSS ARM
9/16" WIDE X 5/16" DEEP
SOLID BRASS CROSS
FINE EBONY INLAY
HIGHLY DETAILED BRASS
3
NAIL
CORPUS
FINGERS AND TOES
THERE IS WEAR FROM USE AND VENERATION TO THE METAL PARTS OF THE CROSS & THERE ARE A FEW BUMPS IN THE WOOD
AMAZING CONDITION FOR AGE AND USE...
PLEASE EXAMINE THE PHOTOS CAREFULLY
THROUGHOUT HISTORY THE STYLE OF HABIT, VOW AND PROFESSION CRUCIFIXES HAS EVOLVED WITHIN EACH RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AND EACH HAS ITS DISTINCT ATTRIBUTES... IN THE CASE OF THE JESUITS... COLONIAL PRE SUPPRESSION 1773 CRUCIFIXES HAD NO SYMBOL OTHER THAN THE 'THREE NAIL CORPUS' ON THE FRONT AND SOME THE 'TRIPLE CROSS' ON THE BACK SIGNIFYING THE HOLY TRINITY... AFTER THE SUPPRESSION 1815... SOME JESUITS GRADUALLY ADDED THE 'IRNI' BANNER AND IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY SOME COMMUNITIES ADDED THE SKULL AND BONES 'GOLGOTHA' AT THE BOTTOM... THIS MAGNIFICENT CINCTURE CRUCIFIX WAS AND INTRICATE PART OF THE HABIT OR CASSOCK AND WAS TUCKED ON AN ANGLE INTO THE CINCTURE...
A WIDE BELT...
REMOVED FOR VENERATION AND TO HOLD HIGH INTO THE AIR AS A SIGN OF FAITH ... UNTIL RECENTLY... IT WAS JESUIT TRADITION THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION WERE INTERRED WITH THEIR CRUCIFIXES... THE NEW TRADITION IS THAT THE CRUCIFIXES ARE PASSED TO A NEW VOCATION... SOMEONE... PROBABLY A FAMILY MEMBER.. CLAIMED... PRESERVED AND PASSED THIS CRUCIFIX ON TO THE BISHOP... BECAUSE IF ITS AGE, RARITY, CONDITION, TREMENDOUS SIZE AND EXTREME WEIGHT... IS A TRUE CATHOLIC TREASURE...
THE JESUIT, SOCIETY OF JESUS, VOW CRUCIFIX IS ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL ANTIQUE CRUCIFIXES.
BY ANCIENT CONGREGATION TRADITION, THESE CRUCIFIXES WERE ACCEPTED WHEN THE PRIEST TOOK HIS FINAL VOWS, VENERATED THROUGHOUT HIS LIFETIME AND LAID TO REST WITH THEIR OWNERS.
IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY TRADITION CHANGED AND SOME OF THE CRUCIFIXES ARE NO LONGER BURIED BUT PASSED TO A NEW VOCATION.
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ or SI) is a Christian male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. Jesuits work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, and promote social justice and ecumenical dialogue.  In 2013, Pope Francis became the first Jesuit Pope.
Ignatius of Loyola founded the society after being wounded in battle and experiencing a religious conversion. He composed the Spiritual Exercises to help others follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. In 1534, Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope. Rule 13 of Ignatius's Rules for Thinking with the Church stated:
That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity ... if [the Holy See of the Universal Church (Roman Catholic Church)] shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.Ignatius's plan of the order's organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by a bull containing the "Formula of the Institute," as described below.  Ignatius had a military background, and members were supposed to accept orders anywhere in the world, where they might be required to live in extreme conditions. Accordingly, the opening lines of the founding document declared that the Society was founded for "whoever desires to serve as a soldier of God(Spanish: "todo el que quiera militar para Dios"), to strive especially for the defense and propagation of the faith and for the progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine." Jesuits are thus sometimes referred to colloquially as "God's Soldiers" or "God's Marines" or "the Pope's Secret Service". The Society participated in the Counter-Reformation and, later, in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General, currently Adolfo Nicolás. The headquarters of the society, its General Curia, is in Rome.The historic curia of St. Ignatius is now part of the Collegio del Gesù attached to the Church of the Gesù, the Jesuit Mother Church.
THREE NAIL CRUCIFIX
Though in the Middle Ages, the crucifixion of Christ typically depicted four nails, beginning in the thirteenth century, some Western art began to represent Christ on the cross with his feet placed one over the other and pierced with single nail. The poem Christus patiens attributed to St. Gregory Nazianzus and the writings of Nonnus and Socrates of Constantinople also speak of three nails.
The three nails, as a symbol for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, are also used on the coats of arms of Drahovce, Slovakia, Saint Saviour, Jersey, St. Clement Parish, Ottawa and in the seal of the Society of Jesus.