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The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France [citation needed] and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages [citation needed]. A type of ringed cross , it became widespread through its use in the stone high crosses erected across the islands, especially in regions evangelised by Irish ...
The Celtic Cross spread using the Universal Waite deck, a recolored variation of the original Rider–Waite deck. The Rider–Waite–Smith deck, [k] released in 1909, was the first complete cartomantic tarot deck other than those derived from Etteilla's Egyptian tarot. [69] (Oswald Wirth's 1889 deck had only depicted the major arcana. [48])
A Celtic Cross in Knock, Ireland. Celtic Christianity [a] is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. [1] The term Celtic Church is deprecated by many historians as it implies a unified and identifiable entity entirely separate from that of mainstream Western ...
The Celtic cross has nevertheless been repeated in statuary, as a dominant feature of the anthropogenic Irish landscape, for at least 5,000 years. The Celtic cross and the Christian cross are similar enough in shape, that the former was easily adopted by Irish Catholic culture, following the Christianization of Ireland. The Celtic cross is ...
The high cross later spread to the rest of the British Isles, including the Celtic areas of Wales, Devon, Brittany and Cornwall, where ogham inscriptions also indicate an Irish presence, and some examples can be found on Continental Europe, particularly where the style was taken by Insular missionaries.
Barochan Cross is an ancient Scottish Celtic Christian cross whose construction has been dated to the early Middle Ages, [1] between the 8th and the 11th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was originally located on the northside of Barochan burn, about 2 km north of Houston in Renfrewshire , then moved to a position nearby on top of Corslie Hill in 1790.
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The ringed cross is a class of Christian cross symbols featuring a ring or nimbus.The concept exists in many variants and dates to early in the history of Christianity.One variant, the cruciform halo, is a special type of halo placed behind the head of Jesus in Christian art.