Talk:Lesser sign of the cross

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A fact from Lesser sign of the cross appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the practice of some Christians of making the lesser sign of the cross has been traced back to the 11th century?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lesser sign of the cross.

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 08:21, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the practise of some Christians to make the lesser sign of the cross has been traced back to the 11th ~~12th~~ century? Source: "Then in the eleventh century, forehead, mouth and breast are mentioned: the so called little sign of the cross, which has become common practise since the twelfth century." Richter 1990
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mount Gerizim Temple

Created by WatkynBassett (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

WatkynBassett (talk) 06:10, 11 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Created on October 6, and nominated at DYK five days afterward (with mandatory QPQ given by seasoned nominator); 612 words in length prosewise at this writing (from 3643 bytes). A concern (per PMC's later commentary below) is that the GBooks preview differs from the article text, which says "traces the origin...to the 11th century" instead. Although Earwig returns a 59.7% score by way of StackExchange (thanks to the inclusion of this extract from the General Instruction of the Roman Missal), the text in question is blockquoted. I find the hook 90% interesting, though. ~~This may be good to go unless another editor expresses concerns.~~ --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) ~~21:01, 14 October 2024 (UTC)~~ 07:11, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coming here from the QPQ at Template:Did you know nominations/Hammond's Hard Lines. The hook here doesn't match the text - the hook says the practice "has been traced back to the 12th century", but the article text says that that academic "traces the origin...to the 11th century". ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:05, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Slgrandson and Premeditated Chaos: Thank you for time and the kind review. PMC, you are of course correct, this was an error or typo on my part. It should read "11th century". I corrected it above. WatkynBassett (talk) 20:07, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Other usage

As written now, the article only mentions usage during the Mass. It would seem as if the practice is also used during other liturgical rites with proclamations of the Gospel outside of Mass — marriage, baptisms, anointing, etc. However, in searching the liturgical books, I can't find an explicit reference to this being the case; it's either implied that it is done in the same way as at Mass, or perhaps the common practice is simply incorrect. Just something to consider and try to dig deeper on; I'll do some looking as well. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 18:44, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]