To the east of the chancel is an hipped with steep gables on the east and west faces, each containing a vesica piscis opening.
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The vesica piscis has been used as a symbol within Freemasonry, most notably in the shapes of the collars worn by officiants of the Masonic rituals.
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However, this term, which is the Italian word for " almond ", is usually reserved for the vesica piscis shape, at least in describing Christian art.
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The worship space in The Cathedral of Christ the Light is a vesica piscis shape ( translated into English means fish bladder ), the shape formed by the intersection of two circles.
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On the obverse, ten stars are arranged in a traditional vesica piscis format indicating the two natures of Christ : his humanity born of Mary and divinity as second person of the Trinity.
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The number 153 has also been related to the vesica piscis, with the claim that Archimedes used 153 as a " shorthand or abbreviation " does not find the number 153 used in that way.
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In Christian art, some aureolas are in the shape of a vertically oriented vesica piscis, and the seals of ecclesiastical organizations can be enclosed within a vertically oriented vesica piscis ( instead of the more usual circular enclosure ).
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In Christian art, some aureolas are in the shape of a vertically oriented vesica piscis, and the seals of ecclesiastical organizations can be enclosed within a vertically oriented vesica piscis ( instead of the more usual circular enclosure ).
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The KU Leuven is dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus, under her traditional attribute as'Seat of Wisdom', and organizes an annual celebration on seal used by the university shows the medieval statue of the Sedes Sapientiae, Leuven, in a vesica piscis shape.
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The mathematical ratio of the height of the vesica piscis to the width across its center is the square root of 3, or 1.7320508 . . . ( since if straight lines are drawn connecting the centers of the two circles with each other and with the two points where the circles intersect, two equilateral triangles join along an edge ).
