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  • In the middle, I think. Greek Cross: Used especially by Eastern Orthodoxy and Early Christianity Also known as the crux immissa quadrata. Has all arms of equal length. Often the arms curve wider as they go out. (wikipedia)
  • "Sure, the overall cross is 'budding' like Aaron's staff. IOW, it is life springing forth from the cross. The IC XC is 'Jesus Christ'. The Inner cross is the cross with the 'titulus' as the top cross bar (that was the sign saying 'King of the Jews'), and the bottom bar is the footrest showing the two choices of the two thieves: one is that on the left of mocking and leads to hell, the other is that on the right of 'Remember me O Lord in Thy Kingdom' and being received in Paradise. Really, though, this isn't the 'Orthodox Cross' but a Russian cross. It is rare to see the cross with titulus and footrest in Byzantine Orthodoxy - it is pretty much a Slavic convention. The budded cross is Byzantine however." "Many Orthodox Christians like this combination of the Russian 3-barred cross and the Byzantine budded cross, because it seems to us to depict an Orthodoxy that is transcending its "national boundaries", as Orthodoxy certainly must do if our witness to the world is to be a full one." "Looks rather like it is saying what the old Russian Tsar said: "My country is Russian, my faith is Greek" - being a Russian Cross in a Greek cross." Source and further information: http://sarisburiensis.blogspot.com/2005/03/crux-fidelis.html

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