Early crosses at Clonmacnoise, IrelandKingswood war memorial in Surrey, England
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 evangelized by Irish missionaries, from the ninth through the 12th centuries.
A high cross at Monasterboice in Ireland
A staple of Insular art, the Celtic cross is essentially a Latin cross with a nimbus surrounding the intersection of the arms and stem. Scholars have debated its exact origins, but it is related to earlier crosses featuring rings. The form gained new popularity during the Celtic Revival of the 19th century; the name "Celtic cross" is a convention dating from that time. The shape, usually decorated with interlace and other motifs from Insular art, became popular for funerary monuments and other uses, and has remained so, spreading well beyond Ireland.
Celticcross variants The Celticcross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the...
Gospels A basic form of a Celtic knotwork cross Ornamental version of Celtic "high cross" with decorative knotwork A quasi-Celticcross made of a large symmetrical...
Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period...
Celticcross stitch is a style of cross-stitch embroidery which recreates Celtic art patterns typical of early medieval Insular art using contemporary...
variants include the Celticcross, used in the stone high crosses of Ireland and Britain; some forms of the Coptic cross; and ringed crosses from western France...
pride. In its Celticcross form, it is used as the logo for white nationalist website Stormfront. This stems from the use of a circled cross by Norwegian...
The Celtic Revival (also referred to as the Celtic Twilight) is a variety of movements and trends in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that see a renewed...
Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. Some...
The Rideau Canal CelticCross is a memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, erected to commemorate the workers and their families that died building the Rideau...
The Celtic nations or Celtic countries are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and...
Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because there are no extant native...
crosses, usually outdoors. These probably developed from earlier traditions using wood, perhaps with metalwork attachments, and earlier pagan Celtic memorial...
usages) or Celtic peoples (/ˈkɛltɪk/ KEL-tick) were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages...
Algiz rune Iron Cross (1939 version) A simplified version of the Celticcross, as used by various neo-Nazi groups The broken sun cross used by the German...
which a cross, stylized in a pre-Medieval Celtic fashion, appears superimposed. The Celticcross bears strong resemblance to the Christian cross; however...
altar cross, either on the communion table or on a table in the chancel. By using the "empty" cross, or cross of the Westminster/Celticcross, Presbyterians...
the Funbo Runestone The cross of triquetras, or "Carolingian cross". Cross composed of four interlaced triquetras. Celticcross with triquetras. Borromean...
The Kildalton Cross is a monolithic high cross in Celticcross form in the churchyard of the former parish church of Kildalton (from Scottish Gaelic Cill...
with other symbols used historically in Europe such as the swastika and Celticcross, othala has been appropriated by far-right groups such as the Nazi party...
criminal code makes the public showing of the swastika, the sig rune, the Celticcross (specifically the variations used by white power activists), the wolfsangel...
the design of his own pendant, the crossos, which combines the Celticcross with a Celtic War sword to illustrate his character's "indigenous origins with...
must be correct for the stamped year (e.g., a 1996 coin should have a Celticcross). It was difficult to manufacture round pounds with properly-produced...
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