Risen Jesus Christus Rex Wall CrossRisen Jesus Christus Rex Wall Cross Christus Rex is Latin meaning Christ The King. One of the most striking and meaningful images in Christian art is the Christus Rex, Christ the King, "reigning from the Tree." Canon Vernon Staley, the Anglo Catholic scholar, wrote in his 1904 Ceremonial of the English Church: "It is not well to regard the Eucharist as commemorative solely of the death and passion of our Lord, and to forget that it is also the