Special legislation in the D�il on its 50th anniversary, 21 January Vatican provided an authenticated relic of the Holy Cross, and the emblem of the Jerusalem Cross, or Crusader Cross, has been restored for the Abbey.
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In the December, 1994 edition of the " Archistra " magazine, Pierre Sali�s once again maintains that the cross is from Toulouse and is the fruit of successive local evolutions, possibly from the Jerusalem cross.
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The main cross is a " cross potent " ( called a " Jerusalem cross " for its use here ), whereas the smaller crosses are Greek crosses, one of the many Byzantine influences on the kingdom.
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The Jerusalem cross was chosen as the emblem of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag ( German Evangelical Church Congress ) in the 1950s, since the 1960s shown in a simplified form where the central Cross potent is replaced by a simple Greek cross.
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The same symbol gave rise to cross variants used during the Crusades, the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and ( via the Jerusalem cross and the Black cross of the Teutonic Order ) the Iron cross used by the German military.
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One of Hetlands's best-known works was the Jerusalem Cross, commissioned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for presentation to world leaders, including Pope John Paul II . One of his mosaics hangs in the entrance of the ELCA's churchwide offices in Chicago.
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The "'Jerusalem cross "'( also known as " Crusaders'cross ", " Five-fold Cross ", or " cross-and-crosslets " ) is a heraldic cross and Christian cross variant consisting of a large cross potent surrounded by four smaller Greek crosses, one in each quadrant.
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Depending on whom you ask, the four points of the Jerusalem cross represent the Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, proclaimed to the four corners of the earth; or the four quarters of the old city of Jerusalem : Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Armenian; or the common characteristics of those four groups of people.
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:Translated loosely : " A green shield; inside, a silver sheep lamb upon a book, proper, and crossed ( obliquely ) with a flagstaff topped by a cross, with a pennon like that in St . John's arms; a border of castles, lions, flags, and Jerusalem crosses; with a device of an F and a Y surmounted by crowns, yokes, and arrows; a surrounding motto with the following legend : Joannes est nomen ejus . "-- What I find confusing is that in Spanish art the pennon with a cross is characteristic of St . James, not St . John . " Veleta " also means " weather vane ", so perhaps that refers to the device at the top of the staff, and the cross of the " bandera " is the red cross on the pennon . ( See, for example, this suggestive painting of John by Titian, showing him with a staff topped by a cross : File : TitianStJohn . jpg The Y and F ( and yokes and arrows ) are badges of the Catholic Monarchs, Ysabela and Fernando.
