The Sign of the Cross in Slavic Lands

[E Wayles Browne]

A source that I didn't know about till I began searching is:

http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Sign_of_the_Cross


-- 
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
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> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere wrote:
>
>> 9 Sept 06
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> I am studying the prayer/gesture of the sign of the cross as it is made
>> in various cultures. I have observed that the sign of the cross is made
>> differently in different Christian contexts. I was especially surprised
>> the first time I observed a Russian Orthodox believer do it in a manner
>> different from that which I had learned growing up as a Roman Catholic.

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