The 1 Series Sedan will have to bear another very heavy cross with it: it marks the switch to front wheel drive for BMW sedans, after the highly contested (but very well received, if we're to look at the selling figures) 2 Series Active Tourer took the flak for being the first BMW to have the motor wheels in front. (mercedesblog.com)
On its last day, a key figure in the hierarchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Paul of Chernobyl and Vyshgorod, led a blessing service for Yanukovych and his clique at the Kyev - Pechersk Lavra, notoriously assuring him, «Today you carry a heavy cross, and the Church will be with you to the end, just as Simon of Cyrene helped carry the cross of Christ to Calvary.» (firstthings.com)
NOTE: Evidently the Lord was so weak that His knees gave way under the weight of the heavy cross. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)