Raphael ’ s " Lo Spasimo di Sicilia ” depicts an event in Christian history when Christ falls while carrying the cross, sees his mother in distress and is helped up by Simon of Cyrene.

" Jesus carried his cross to the site of execution ( assisted by Simon of Cyrene ), called the place of the Skull, or " Golgotha " in Hebrew and in Latin " Calvary ".

The three Synoptic Gospels refer to a man called Simon of Cyrene who is made to carry the cross (,, ), while in the Gospel of John () Jesus is made to carry His own cross.

* The sons of Simon of Cyrene are named as if they might have been early Christian figures known to Mark's intended audience ( Brown et al.

* Jarreth Merz as Simon of Cyrene

The movie clearly identifies Simon of Cyrene as Jewish, although the Synoptic Gospels provide only his name and place of origin.

In the first deleted scene, Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem which is the eighth station of the cross, Jesus falls to the ground as the women wail around him and Simon of Cyrene attempts to hold up the cross and help up Jesus simultaneously.

They have noted the film's many sympathetic portrayals of Jews: Simon of Cyrene ( who helps Jesus carry the cross ), Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary, St. Peter, St. John, Veronica ( who wipes Jesus ' face and offers him water ), and several Jewish priests who protest Jesus ' arrest during Caiaphas's trial of Jesus.

According to some Muslim traditions, Jesus was replaced by a double ; others suggest it was Simon of Cyrene, or one of the disciples such as Judas Iscariot.

# Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the cross

Station 5: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the Cross, Good Friday procession 2011 at Ulm, Germany

The fifth Station of the Cross, showing Simon of Cyrene helping Christ carry his cross.

Simon of Cyrene ( שמעון " Hearkening ; listening ", Standard Hebrew Šimʿon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimʿôn ) was the man compelled by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus as Jesus was taken to his crucifixion, according to all three Synoptic Gospels

: And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross

Because his home town, Cyrene, Libya, was located in northern Africa, a connection arose making Simon of Cyrene the first saintly Christian.

It has even been suggested that the Rufus mentioned by Paul in Romans 16: 13 is the son of Simon of Cyrene.

Some also link Simon himself with the " men of Cyrene " who preached the Gospel to the Greeks in Acts 11: 20.

According to some Gnostic traditions, Simon of Cyrene, by mistaken identity, suffered the events leading up to the crucifixion, and died on the cross instead of Jesus.

The Cyrenian or Simon movement, centered in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, takes its name from Simon of Cyrene.

Characters playing Simon of Cyrene appear in the silent The King of Kings ( 1927, played by William Boyd ) King of Kings ( 1961, played by Rafael Luis Calvo ) The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965, played by Sidney Poitier ) and The Passion of the Christ ( 2004, played by Jarreth J. Merz ).

Among the actors performing Simon of Cyrene in productions of this play is Paul Robeson ( in a 1920 YWCA production directed by Bob Cole's sister Dora ).

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Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

The matter is not so: For Rabbi Akiba was a great scholar of the sages of the Mishnah, and he was the assistant-warrior of the king Ben Coziba Simon bar Kokhba ...

, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.

It has been argued that, while Hume did not think causation is reducible to pure regularity, he was not a fully fledged realist either: Simon Blackburn calls this a quasi-realist reading.

* In an episode of The Saint television series entitled ' Escape Route ' ( 1966 ), Simon Templar ( Roger Moore ) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.

So Irenaeus tells of the system of Simon Magus, of the system of Menander, of the system of Saturninus, in which the number of these angels is reckoned as seven, and of the system of Carpocrates.

We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.

Simon Critchley argues in his 1992 book The Ethics of Deconstruction that Derrida's deconstruction is an intrinsically ethical practice.

It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar Caladbolg, a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

A modern grimoire is the Simon Necronomicon, named after a fictional book of magic in the stories of author H. P. Lovecraft, and inspired by Babylonian mythology and the Ars Goetia, a section in the Lesser Key of Solomon which concerns the summoning of demons.

Simon is particularly interested in how these factors directly and indirectly influence the making of decisions.

Simon is primarily interested in seeking identification of the individual employee with the organizational goals and values.

While this notion was not entirely new, Simon is best known for its origination.

Satisficing, as defined by Simon, can be applied to library and information science where researchers assess how much information is adequate to meet their information need.

Julian Simon ( 1932 – 1998 ) is the American economist.

For instance, the prediction of less agricultural soil per capita is a trend that Simon observed in The Ultimate Resource which Simon attributed to long-term rises in agricultural productivity.

His brother, Simon, was the company's Tai-pan from 1983 to 1988 and is the 7th Keswick to be Tai-pan.