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18 unusual facts about Christian cross


Battle of the Milvian Bridge

Lactantius describes that sign as a "staurogram", or a Latin cross with its upper end rounded in a P-like fashion.

Cruciate ligament of atlas

The ligament is named as such because it is in the shape of a cross.

Devil World

He navigates through a series of mazes and touches Crosses to power up and summon the ability to breathe fire and eat the dots in the maze.

Eweida v British Airways plc

In October 2006, Nadia Eweida, a Christian employee of British Airways, was asked to cover up a cross necklace which depicted a Christian cross, and was placed on unpaid leave when she refused either to do so or to accept a position where she did not have to cover it up.

Ginger Cow

Peace is achieved in the Middle East among the three Abrahamic religions, who morph the cross, Star of David, and hilal into a new unifying symbol: The logo of the band Van Halen, which appears on a stage to commence a 10-year concert in Israel.

La Luz del Mundo

The Church does not use crosses or images in its worship services and its members do not observe Christmas or Holy Week.

Lake Junaluska, North Carolina

In 1922, the Junaluska cross was built on a hill overlooking the lake on its east side.

MacDermot Roe

Additionally, in 1385, the MacDermots Roe established the Dominican Priory of the Holy Cross at Cloonshanville, near modern day Frenchpark in County Roscommon.

Mar Thoma Syrian Church in Malaysia

The logo of the Mar Thoma Church consists of a shield emblazoned with a Christian cross with the representation of the Ashoka Chakra at its centre.

Ned 'n Edna's Blend

Homer stuns the audience with his performance and everything is going great until the cross Homer is tied to snaps and falls on Flanders.

Oliwa Cathedral

The interior also holds Rococo chapels of the Holy Cross and St John of Nepomuk, an ambo, tombstones, epitaphs, the Pomeranian Dukes tomb, the Kos family tomb, bishop’s crypt, antique chandeliers, canopies, and many other antiquities, including a feretory of great cultural value, showing Our Lady of Oliwa with an Infant Jesus.

Religious response to assisted reproductive technology

Spouses who still suffer from infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures should unite themselves with the Lord's Cross, the source of all spiritual fecundity.

San Juan, Metro Manila

Later, the Dominicans constructed a convent and a stone church dedicated to the Holy Cross.

Solomonic dynasty

The throne is often shown with a Christian cross, a Star of David, and a crescent moon on it (representing the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions).

The War Against the West

In citations from Hitler, Goebbels, and others, Kolnai sought to expose what he saw as "the obsessive German national socialist effort to replace Christianity with a crude and barbaric form of pagan religion, to twist the cross of Christ into a swastika."

Vladimir Dašić

He has two tattoos on his body including a cross on his back with the words which Tsar Lazar said before battle of Kosovo wrapped around it and a dedication to his deceased friend, Ljubo Jovanović who was also a basketball player, with the inscription of his name on a basketball on his left bicep.

Winter swimming

To celebrate this, holes are cut in the ice on rivers, lakes or other bodies of water, usually in the form of a Christian or Orthodox cross.

World Trade Center cross

The World Trade Center cross, also known as the Ground Zero cross, is a group of steel beams found amidst the debris of the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which resembles the proportions of a Christian cross.


Amen.

In addition to the criticism that had already been raised about The Deputy for its portrayal of the role of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, the film created controversy in Catholic circles by its poster (created by controversial Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani) representing a mix of a Christian cross and a swastika.

Andrés Marzo

He executed paintings of St. Anthony of Padua, one for the parish church of Santa Cruz, and another for that of Santa Catalina.

Berlin Cathedral

On 7 April 1465 – at Frederick Irontooth's request – Pope Paul II attributed to St Erasmus Chapel a canon-law College named Stift zu Ehren Unserer Lieben Frauen, des heiligen Kreuzes, St. Petri und Pauli, St. Erasmi und St. Nicolai dedicated to Mary(am) of Nazareth, the Holy Cross, Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, Erasmus of Formiae, and Nicholas of Myra.

Elisabetta Querini

As such, on March 4, 1694, Elisabetta Querini appeared clad in a cloth of gold robe adorned with sable, with a white veil and corno ducale, (the version of ducal crown worn by the Doge and his wife) adorned with jewels, and a large diamond cross on her chest.

Frances Cress Welsing

She presents an extensive interpretation of broad categories of symbolic objects: guns and weapons, Christ and the Holy Cross, ball games, boxing, smoking objects, paper money and gold.