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The Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse ( Latin: Dioecesis Crossensis) is a Latin Church diocese in west-central Wisconsin in the United States. The metropolitan for the diocese is the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The mother church is the Cathedral of Saint Joseph the Workman in La Crosse.
La Crosse ( / ləˈkrɒs / lə-KROSS) [ 6] is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. [ 7] La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 census. [ 2]
The Chi Rho ( ☧, English pronunciation / ˈkaɪ ˈroʊ /; also known as chrismon[ 1]) is one of the earliest forms of the Christogram, formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters— chi and rho ( ΧΡ )—of the Greek ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ( rom: Christos) in such a way that the vertical stroke of the rho intersects the center of the chi ...
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The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is one of the few surviving examples of an insula, the kind of apartment blocks where many Roman city dwellers resided. [1] It was built during the 2nd century AD, and rediscovered, under an old church, when Benito Mussolini initiated a plan for massive urban renewal of Rome's historic Capitoline Hill neighbourhood.
The Latin phrase cīvis Rōmānus sum (Classical Latin: [ˈkiːwis roːˈmaːnus ˈsũː]; "I am (a) Roman citizen") is a phrase used in Cicero's In Verrem as a plea for the legal rights of a Roman citizen. [1]
The name seems to be originated from the French term for field hockey, le jeu de la crosse. [ 25 ] James Smith described in some detail a game being played in 1757 by Mohawk people "wherein now they used a wooden ball, about 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter, and the instrument they moved it with was a strong staff about 5 feet (1.5 m) long, with a ...