Christ
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With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
They went to Christ the Redeemer in Rio.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Brazil, known for its Christ the Redeemer statue looming over Rio de Janeiro, hosts the world's second-largest Christian population after the United States, according to the Pew Research Center.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
To all this, the successor to St. Peter, atop the rock on which Christ built his church, is a compelling answer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Thousands were suffering and dying when Christ was born, Louise.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
The film is adapted from “The Three Christs of Ypsilanti,” a 1964 book about three patients with paranoid schizophrenia, each of whom claimed to be Jesus.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
Three Christs An empathetic psychiatrist treats three men suffering from schizophrenia in 1959 Michaigan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
But that performance pales compared to his role in Jon Avnet’s Three Christs, where he plays one of a trio of schizophrenics who claim to be Jesus.
From The Verge ● Sep. 22, 2017
They don’t usually believe in flying saucers, like the 39 suicides of Heaven’s Gate, or homegrown Christs with a taste for classic rock, like the Branch Davidians of Waco.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2013
Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven- bestriding.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
