My husband and I have toured countless abbeys and cathedrals over the years, as we traveled across Europe. Ancient houses of worship cast a particular awe over us. The history, the intentional beauty behind their construction and decoration, the candelabras and the columns, the kneeling boards and the flickering candles in side chapels, the stained glass telling stories, the quiet crypts of buried saints—we love it all. But our loves diverge when it comes to the crucifix found adorning most altars and present in so much religious art…
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