The Passion of The Christ may be the most artistically and commercially ambitious feature film about Jesus to come out of Hollywood since the 1960s. ... In addition, when Simon of Cyrene ...

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Particularly moving is the transformation of Simon of Cyrene, played with bitter conviction in a breakthrough performance by Jarreth Merz, who initially helps carry the cross with great reluctance ...

Simon of Cyrene encounters just such a cross. It’s hard not to ponder his place in the Passion story and ask, “What was the point?” Simon shows up in the synoptic Gospels at history’s darkest hour.

Christ prayed for him that his faith might not fail, ... Pope Benedict, like Simon of Cyrene, carries the cross without attracting attention to himself, ...

In an article written for the Spanish newspaper “La Razón,” the renowned Italian journalist Vittorio Messori recounts his experience seeing “The Passion of the Christ,” saying the movie ...

There is a reason that iconographers work in two dimensions. For one thing, when one is viewing an icon of, say, the crucifixion, there is little chance that one could confuse the image with physic… ...