Devotion to the Crucified King

We learn about who Jesus is from the Gospels, writings of the Church Fathers, Tradition of the Early Church and Ecumenical Councils. Even so, Jesus is still and will always be a mystery to us here on earth. He is a paradox, the Crucified King. To be Crucified on the Cross was the most shameful and humiliating way to die, yet that is how God, Jesus chose that way to die. He could have chosen other ways, the sword, the noose but he chose the cross. The cross was the first universal symbol of Christianity.