Crossword-Solution: SUDARIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sudarium | n. | The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SUDARIUM”
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| BISHOPRIC holding cloth | 1 answer |
| ECCLESIASTICAL holding cloth | 1 answer |
| HOLDING cloth (eccl.) | 1 answer |
| room in a Roman bathhouse where sweating is induced by heat | 1 answer |
| Bathroom | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCAEEM
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eruption
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Sentences with SUDARIUM (5)
Amid solemn litanies the relics of Fray Diego were laid upon the prince's pillow, and the sudarium, or mortuary cloth, which had covered his face, was placed upon the prince's forehead.
The most intrepid veteran of us all dares no more than wipe his face with his cambric sudarium; if by mischance his hand slip from its orthodox gripe of the velvet, he draws it back as from liquid brimstone, and atones for the indecorum by fresh inflexibility and more rigorous sameness.
The noble form of the apparent Vault of Heaven--the line which every star follows in its journeying, extricated by the Christian architect from the fosse, the aqueduct, and the sudarium--grew into long succession of proportioned colonnade, and swelled into the white domes that glitter above the plain of Pisa, and fretted channels of Venice, like foam globes at rest.
Whereupon, setting his hand to the work, Jacopo painted there a God the Father with many little Angels, and a Veronica who had the Sudarium with the image of Jesus Christ; which work, thus executed by Jacopo in so short a time, was much extolled.
And in the highest part, behind a little hill, is the Madonna with the Maries, who, weeping, are awaiting Christ, who has fallen to the ground in the middle of the scene, and has about Him many Jews that are smiting Him, while Veronica is offering to Him the Sudarium, accompanied by some women both young and old, all weeping at the outrage that they see being done to the Saviour.