Interesting. The English translation of that is “…he dwelt among us”. Making the dwelling a tent seems like it makes it even more down-to-Earth, so to speak. I wonder what the original Greek has?
From Wikipedia: On Sunday, December 10, Juan Diego talked to archbishop for the second time and he instructed him to return to Tepeyac Hill, and ask the lady for a miraculous sign to prove her identity.
The Archbishop carded the Holy Virgin!
I once had a conversation with a fascinating and fantastic older priest in California a couple of decades ago. He was the youngest of 12 kids. His dad died when he was very young so his Mom’s mother came to live with them as well. His mother had converted to Catholicism and kids were all Catholic, but his grandmother used to chide them all half-heartedly, “You Catholics keep Jesus on the wall, we keep him in our hearts.”
His retelling was awesome and he remembered the interaction incredibly fondly, but he used it to make a point about how Catholics get caught up in dogma instead of the intent of Jesus. I should mention that he joined the priesthood in his mid50s in order to fight for the rights of women and homosexuals in the Catholic church “from the inside.”
As mentioned, His suffering, death and resurrection are all The Most Important Thing.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
Scholars have considered this point in various ways.
Come on! The Apostle’s creed is way more bad ass!
. . . suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell . . .
Christians (I am one) are shown the cross and scenes of crucifixion as reminders of Jesus’s sacrifice the way your mother will remind you of the 12 hours of labor she went through to bring you into this world.
Not that Hell, the other one 
It’s one of their deliberate bits of separation from mainstream Christianity. The Cross is a pagan symbol to them–an indication that the mainstream Church has lost God.
There is an actual controversy on it, though, as the Wikipedia article says, the earliest Christian writings all seem to presume it was a cross, and a man who lived when Jesus was born describes the horizontal beam.
So, there’s this Jewish kid who’s doing terribly in math. His teachers all say that he’s got a lot of potential, but that nothing motivates him to actually do his work. So his parents try offering rewards for him doing his homework. They try punishing him for bad grades. They try putting him in charter schools, and home school, and private schools. They try everything. Finally, they enroll him in a Catholic school.
Imagine their surprise when, a month later, he comes home with a 97% on his first math test! They ask him what the Catholic school is doing that finally made the difference. “Well”, he says, “when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign on the wall, I knew they meant business!”.
Oye.
Who else can you offend, already?
I think that if the peace sign really were a broken cross it would be a great symbol for Christianty; the power of death is broken. Anyway, for me Jesus’ life is more important to me than death and resurrection (which I don’t take literally).
Your objection is not new.
1 Corinthians 1:23 “But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness”
John 1 (KJV) - And the Word was made (click on “tools/interlinear”: καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν"
The verb is from σκηνόω. The father of Alice in Wonderland and his co-author give this to start with:
The Vulgate reads “et habitavit in nobis” (click on “tools/bibles” and scroll down).
Thats a crucifix.
A cross would be called “Crux” in latin, but faiths which often have crucifixes also have crosses…
Its just the sanitised sects avoid the morbid look of the crucifix. They also don’t have actual nails in hands any re-enactment…
Imagine that figure tweaked with animatronics. 
Hey, don’t forget us Latter-day Saints, either.
I seem to recall, also, seeing a rather large crucifix hanging in a Protestant chapel.
This wasn’t always the case. Early Mormons used the cross. The last time this came up, the author of a book documenting this registered to plug his work.
Jesus wasn’t on the cross ALL the time.
Back in Bozeman, my Catholic parish bought a church building from a neighboring Lutheran congregation (they were moving to a new, larger building on the outskirts of town), and used it for a couple of years while our building was being renovated. It was interesting seeing the juxtaposition between Protestant and Catholic tastes in church decor.
‘Set his tent among us’ seems like a better literal translation, then. Interesting. I don’t know Greek so was unaware of that.