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cross bearer
noun
A person who carries a cross in a Christian religious procession.
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He wept bitterly, paying no attention to the gunmen flanking the cross bearer behind him.
Kaufman's Elvis was a performance of the Stations of Cross, with Foreign Man as the cross bearer and Elvis as the resurrected king messiah.
The cross bearer, Jonathan Fields, a gaunt man with a bowl-shaped silver haircut, rested the four-foot-high cross against his bangs.
Following a cross bearer, hundreds of priests, nuns, deacons, representatives of lay orders and leaders of other religions will file through the portals of St. Patrick's.
The cross bearer holds a large, wooded crucifix and commences the procession in which the priest enters the church.
Only the cross bearer should.
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"They talk about the need to kill all non-Muslims, all cross-bearers," Mr. Putin told a joint news conference with European Union leaders, referring to his Chechen opponents.
But he appeared to take pains to soften the blow of an outburst on Monday in which he made a coarse remark about circumcision and accused the Islamic rebels of wanting "to kill all non-Muslims, all cross-bearers".
It will be the first meeting between the two leaders since the takeover last month of a Moscow theater by Chechen guerrillas, and Mr. Putin's subsequent public outburst in which he made a coarse remark about circumcision and accused the Islamic rebels of wanting "to kill all non-Muslims, all cross-bearers".
Another torch bearer featured was the military cross holder Corporal Ricky Fergusson, who lost both legs, five fingers and his left eye in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2010.
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