The curved crucifix was designed by sculptor Enrico Job in honor of John Paul II's visit to Brescia in northern Italy's Lombardy region in 1998.
The crucifix was a replica of one designed by a Jesuit priest, the Reverend Luís Espinal, who was tortured and killed by Bolivian paramilitary squads in 1980.
On a recent trip to Santa Barbara to confer with priests about her medical history, she wore a brilliant blue pantsuit with matching hat and turban, heavy silver chains and a black leather belt of her own design studded with 13 silver crucifixes.
Nory wonders why so many cathedrals are designed in the shape of a crucifix, why "they have to concentrate on the awful way he died". On hearing the myth of Achilles, she wonders why his mother held him by the heels to dip him in the River Styx, why she hadn't climbed in the river herself and gently cradled him in the water.
Roger Hanna's set, a single platform in the shape of a stone crucifix, was spare and elegant; Jeff Davis's imaginative lighting design underscored the mood while conveying a sense of changing settings.
In the 70s, shock tactics prevailed: Vivienne Westwood and her partner Malcolm McLaren made political T-shirts to sell in their shop, SEX, and the most popular design featured a swastika and an inverted crucifix under the word "Destroy".
Designed in the shape of a giant crucifix by a famous English sculptor, William Pye, the 10-foot-wide font sits in the middle of the nave filled to the brim with what appears to be still water, though it flows continuously from all four sides.
Acting through "liturgical design consultants," they encouraged churches to dispose of crucifixes and other religiously significant objects.
Bent Exner designed some of the artefacts in the church including the crucifix over the altar.
The centrepiece of James Button's eloquent design is a composite wooden structure – half of which can be lit up as crucifix and half of which is a gallows.
