{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The Russian Orthodox cross\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-russian-orthodox-cross.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/licra.contextxxi.org\/the-russian-orthodox-cross.html'\u003EThe Russian Orthodox cross\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EThe origins of the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s symbol, that is the Cross that today is the Russian orthodox church\u2019s cross, are difficult to trace. First, the Russian Orthodox cross doesn\u2019t stem from Byzantium but from Rome. While the Greek cross is even both in vertical and in horizontal extension, the Latin cross\u2019s vertical beam is longer than the horizontal. The Russian orthodox (the \u201dtrue believers\u201c) maintain that the Latin or Roman cross must be the original as the crucifixion was \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-russian-orthodox-cross.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}