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Cross

Represents Christianity.

Usually mounted on three steps, signifying - Faith, Hope and Charity.

The most potent symbol of the Christian Faith, the cross has been used for religious and ornamental purposes since time immemorial.

To the Aztecs it symbolized the God of rain, the Scandinavians set them up as boundary markers, and two buns marked with a cross were found at the ancient Egyptian site of Herculaneum.