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The Cross of Tau; also called the Tau Cross, St. Anthony's Cross, the Old Testament Cross, the Anticipatory Cross, the Cross Commissee, the Egyptian Cross, the Advent Cross, or the Crux Commissa; iyo this cross ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im doing a project on. it!!!!! 4 religionJesus Christ]]. Hence, this cross is often used during the Advent season. Image File history File links Te_cross. ... Image File history File links Te_cross. ... The traditional form of the Western Christian cross, known as the Latin cross. ... Advent (from the Latin Adventus, implicitly coupled with Redemptoris, the coming of the Saviour) is a holy season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, also known as the season of Christmas. ...

As with Christianity, other ancient societies who used the "Tau" symbol also evolved its use to represent life, resurrection, reincarnation, and blood sacrifice. These crosses are rare, and only a few are left in the world, the most well known being the cross on Tory Island in County Donegal, Ireland. For other uses, see Life (disambiguation), Lives (disambiguation) or Living (disambiguation), Living Things (disambiguation). ... Look up Resurrection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Reincarnation, literally to be made flesh again, is a doctrine or mystical belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives death to be reborn in a new body. ... Marcus Aurelius and members of the Imperial family offer sacrifice in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes: contemporary bas-relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome For the computer game, see Sacrifice. ... Tory Island (OileÃ¡n Toraigh in Irish; translation: tors are hills), is an island 12 km off the north-west coast of County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Lifford Code: DL Area: 4,841 kmÂ² Population (2006) 146,956 Website: www. ...

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"Church Symbolism" by F.R. Webber, published in Cleveland by J.H. Jansen, 1938

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Tau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (478 words)
	Tau (upper case Τ, lower case τ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
	The symbolism of the cross was connected not only to the letter chi, but also to tau, the equivalent of the last letter in the Phoenician and Old Hebrew alphabets, and which was originally cruciform in shape.
	Tau in astronomy is a measure of opacity, or how much sunlight cannot penetrate the atmosphere.

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