Crosier

Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down ❋ Unknown (2008)

Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That was called a crosier, Daoud recalled, and was the cardinal's staff of office. ❋ Robert Shea (1963)

"The hat and robe will cost four thousand taels, and the crosier, which is of the rarest materials and manufacture, will be sold for the same amount." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The crosier, which is another external ornament to the shield widely made use of by ecclesiastics, must not be confounded, as it often has been, with the processional cross of an archbishop. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver ... .. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, -- very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver .... ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

• We do appear to have set the cat among the pigeons with recent revelations that Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, barred Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the US church, and the first woman to lead an Anglican province, from wearing her mitre or carrying her bishop's crosier during a sermon at Southwark Cathedral. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He released his grip on his crosier and began to crawl along the floor, his hands clutching at the ends of the pews as he pulled himself along, his attention still fixed upon the verger. ❋ John Connolly (2009)

Receive the crosier, the sign of your pastoral office and keep watch over the whole flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishop to govern the church of God. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sinterklaas is dressed like the pope because he was historically a bishop in Myra Turkey, which explains for the mitre, dress, cape and crosier. ❋ Jen (2009)

He is generally represented as a bishop, a crosier in his right hand, holding a miniature church of chased gold on the open palm of his left hand. ❋ Toby O'B (2009)

It is estimated that there were three hundred and ten bishops and abbots who bore the crosier. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alas! the Abbot of Unreason had only to nourish his mock crosier, and the whooping, the hallooing, and the dancing, were renewed with a vehemence which would have defied the lungs of Stentor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Beside the beads was placed the mitre of the Abbot, of an antique form, and blazing with precious stones, and the rich and highly-embossed crosier rested against the same table. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The broken-hearted lover sits on the stairs, deaf to the spaniel barking at him; the deluded pope, with his mitre and crosier, intones lines from the Mass interminably. ❋ Catharine Arnold (2008)

[Yo]! He's a [Crosier]! Let's be his friend! ❋ LolaRaeLoo (2023)