This week's featured Lenten image of Christ on the Cross from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection has an interesting provenance. It may be a new addition to my collection, but it was actually purchased from an Italian craftsman in the San Polo district of Venice on a trip to Italy I made many years before I became a serious collector of contemporary sacred art and was only recently rediscovered. The colored, molded glass Crucifix, mounted on crimson velvet, is the work of Giovanni Reno--that, at least, is my interpretation of the signature scrawled on a piece of paper attached to the back. This Romanesque image of the Dying Christ replicates an 11th century gold and cloisonné enamel Crucifix on the cover of the Pax of Ariberto, a lavishly decorated wooden holder for the Gospels in the Milan Cathedral Treasury. Reno's glass version of this historic sacred artifact can now be viewed in the gallery of the Crosses and Crucifixes page of the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)