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  2. Celtic cross - Wikipedia

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    A Celtic cross symbol. The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages.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 missionaries, from the ninth through the 12th centuries.

  3. Tarot card reading - Wikipedia

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    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])

  4. High cross - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Celtic Christianity - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Christian cross variants - Wikipedia

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    A cross with four arms of equal length which widen to a hammer shape at the outside ends. Each arm has a triangular panel inscribed in a triquetra (three-cornered knot) pattern. There is a small square panel in the center of the cross. A symbol of the Anglican and Episcopal Churches. Celtic Cross

  7. Hiberno-Scottish mission - Wikipedia

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    The Hiberno-Scottish mission was a series of expeditions in the 6th and 7th centuries by Gaelic missionaries originating from Ireland that spread Celtic Christianity in Scotland, Wales, England and Merovingian France. Catholic Christianity spread first within Ireland. Since the 8th and 9th centuries, these early missions were called 'Celtic ...

  8. Archaeologists Dug Up a Royal Grave—and Found a Secret ...

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    Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.

  9. Kildalton Cross - Wikipedia

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    Kildalton Cross AD 800 Islay, Scotland. The Kildalton Cross is a monolithic high cross in Celtic cross form in the churchyard of the former parish church of Kildalton (from Scottish Gaelic Cill Daltain, "Church of the Foster Son" (i.e. St John the Evangelist) on the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.