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摘要

ALARGE CRUCIFIX nas long nung aDove the speaker's chair in Quebec's legislature. The first one was installed in 1936 to acknowledge the bond between the Catholic church and the government of Canada's French-speaking province. It survived the "quiet revolution" of the 1960s against the church's grip on public and private life. The church ceased to run the province's schools, hospitals and social programmes. But politicians of all parties were loth to take down the crucifix, which was replaced with another in 1982. One premier reportedly said that he was no Joseph of Arima-thea, the man who buried Jesus.