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Flowers and Festivals 



S. Andrew's Cross ; floyid^ or garlanded with flowers ; 

 the crosse, crossed ; besides the divers tricking or 

 dressing; as piercing, voiding, fimbriating, ingraiHng, 

 couping — and in fouxie and devices there is still a 

 plus ultra ; insomuch that crosses alone, as they are 

 variously disguised, are enough to distinguish all the 

 several families of gentlemen in England." 



There are two principal forms of the Cross, the 

 Latin and the Greek. 



The Latin Cross (Plate XXIV., fig. i) is the repre- 

 sentation of the tree whereon our Lord suffered; and 

 it is this form which is most prevalent in the works of 

 art of the Western Church. It was formerly called 

 the Cross of the Passion, and is the Episcopal Cross. 



The Greek Cross (fig. 2) is less material and more 

 spiritual in idea ; it is said to represent our Lord's 

 ministry ; and also its four equal arms represent the 

 glad tidings of the Gospel spread all over the world, 

 as taught by the four evangelists, and symbolized 

 by the four arms pointing in the direction of the four 

 winds of heaven. 



