* 1942 – Malta received the George Cross for its gallantry.

His brother, Gebhard, served on the western front and saw combat ; he received the Iron Cross and was eventually promoted to lieutenant.

He then returned to 2nd Battalion as a company officer and, in January 1916, received the Military Cross for his bravery at Loos.

12840 men of the regiment were killed while seven members were nominated and received the Victoria Cross and over 2, 000 further decorations were awarded.

* 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

Here the Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross | Canons Regular of the Holy Cross from Uden ( Netherlands ) are received by Pope Pius XII.

Heydrich received several Nazi and military awards, including the German Order, Blood Order, Golden Party Badge, Luftwaffe Pilot's Badge, bronze and silver combat mission bars, and the Iron Cross First and Second Classes.

Spenser received a football scholarship to Holy Cross, where he played strong safety.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

But is present truly and really, so that after the consecration of the bread and of the wine, the bread is transmuted, transubstantiated, converted and transformed into the true Body Itself of the Lord, Which was born in Bethlehem of the ever-Virgin, was baptized in the Jordan, suffered, was buried, rose again, was received up, sits at the right hand of the God and Father, and is to come again in the clouds of Heaven ; and the wine is converted and transubstantiated into the true Blood Itself of the Lord, Which as He hung upon the Cross, was poured out for the life of the world.

When the German 65th Army Corps received a false Double Cross V-1 report that there was considerable damage in Southampton — which had not been a V-1 target — the V-1s were temporarily aimed at the South Coast Ports.

The Iron Cross was presented via radio, and he received the physical medal from one of his German handlers after the war had ended.

For his service in the Meuse-Argonne Operations, Patton received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal, and was brevetted full colonel.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

He has received numerous awards such as the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Gutenberg Prize awarded by the City of Mainz, the Werner von Siemens Ring and the Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation ( 1992 ).

For example, there is a story that at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the Prior of the Abbey at Durham received a vision of Cuthbert, ordering him to take the corporax cloth of the saint and raise it on a spear point near the battlefield as a banner.

In November 2008, Peres received an honorary knighthood, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George from Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace in London.

During this term, Katsura received the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George from King Edward of Great Britain, and was elevated to the rank of marquess by Emperor Meiji.

* The Victoria Cross is the highest military award that may be received by members of the armed forces in the British Army and other Commonwealth countries for valour " in the face of the enemy.

In 1961 he received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the Légion d ' honneur.

In 2011, Cisco received the Innovation Preparedness award from the American Red Cross, Silicon Valley Chapter for its development and use of these vehicles in disasters.

For this mission Glenn received his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross.

He also received the Order of Vasa by the government of Sweden, and the Cross of Commander, French Legion of Honor, by the French government.

It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London ; this information is also engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town.

As he infiltrates the gang's stronghold in the city of Southern Cross, he finds out that the leader of KING is his old nemesis, the Nanto Seiken master Shin, the man who engraved the seven scars on Kenshiro's chest and kidnapped his fiancee Yuria.

The Lady Chapel not only contains the Saxon Cross but also an ancient broken marble slab engraved with a Bishop's pastoral staff and a Greek cross believed to have come from a reliquary containing the relics of St. Richard of Chichester, a 13th century bishop who often visited West Wittering.

The new gravestone is engraved with the China Dragon of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Victoria Cross, and has the inscription ‘ AT THIS PLACE LIE THE REMAINS OF SGT GEORGE WALTERS VC.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the The King's Own Royal Border Regiment & Border Regiment Museum in Carlisle Castle, Cumbria, together with the remainder of his group including an engraved copy of his Crimea medal.

His Victoria Cross was actually correctly engraved Horlock.

The figure of Jesus on the Cross ( the soma ) is usually engraved, enameled, or painted on the cross, rather than being a separate three-dimensional figure as is found on a crucifix.

Portrait, ( engraved by Thomas Cross ( engraver ) | Thomas Cross )

On the simple tomb surmounted by a large Cross are engraved these words: “ To Sister Rosalie, from her grateful friends, the rich and the poor .” Anonymous hands brought flowers and continue to bring flowers to this gravesite: a lasting yet discreet homage to this humble Daughter of St. Vincent de Paul.

In 1984, the Personal Standard of the Governor of Victoria was changed to the State Flag of Victoria, with the blue background replaced by gold, and red stars depicting the Southern Cross.

In 1819, Severn was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Academy for his painting Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

* Nick Baumgartner, Winter X Games gold medalist in the 2011 Snowboard Cross event and a member of the United States Olympic snowboarding team

* July 9 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech at the Democratic National Convention, which nominates him for President of the United States.

Ibn Šaddād furthermore claims that Tamar outbid the Byzantine emperor in her efforts to obtain the relics of the True Cross, offering 200, 000 gold pieces to Saladin who had taken the relics as booty at the battle of Hattin – to no avail, however.

The Cross of St Cuthbert features as the principal charge on the coat of arms of the University of Durham, granted in 1843, blazoned Argent, a Cross of St Cuthbert Gules, on a canton Azure, a chevron Or, between three lions rampant of the first (' A red Cross of St Cuthbert on a silver shield with three little silver fighting lions around a gold chevron on a blue square in the top left-hand corner ').

Among their products are tanaghilt or zakkat ( the ' Agadez Cross ' or ' Croix d ' Agadez '); the Tuareg Takoba, many gold and silver-made necklaces called ' Takaza '; and earrings called ' Tizabaten '.

Their settlement became known as Lundie's Cross Roads after a trading post opened in the 1830s to serve pioneers and miners searching for gold.

This occurred at the height of the late 19th century Western Australian gold rush, transforming Fremantle into a capital of trade and gateway for thousands of gold miners to the inland boom towns of Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie and Southern Cross.

Catesby, believing his death to be near, kissed the gold crucifix he wore around his neck and said he had given everything for " the honour of the Cross ".

Other Navy awards: Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with gold star, Distinguished Flying Cross.

* The collar, also worn by only Knights and Dames Grand Cross, is made of gold.

The badges of Knights and Dames Grand Cross, Knights and Dames Commander and Commanders are enamelled with pale blue crosses and crimson rings ; those of Officers are plain gold ; those of Members are plain silver.

A succession of gold rushes in the Yilgarn region near Southern Cross in 1887, at Coolgardie in 1892, and at Kalgoorlie in 1893 caused a population explosion in the barren and dry desert centre of Western Australia, exemplified by towns like Cunderdin and Merredin.

The Southern Cross appears as five white stars on a blue panel at the hoist, whilst in the centre of the gold field in the fly is the modified arms of the City of Canberra.

It also has predecessors in gold necklaces of the European Bronze Age, which are sometimes also called " torcs ", for example, the three 12th – 11th-century BC specimens found at Tiers Cross, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and the Milton Keynes Hoard, which contained two large examples.

Then, just as with Christ, the Cross is resurrected, and adorned with gold and silver.

The physical symbol of the award was a blue-enameled Maltese Cross with golden eagles, based on the symbol of the Johanniter Order, between the arms and the Prussian royal cypher and the words Pour le Mérite (" For Merit " in the French language ) written in gold letters on the body of the cross.

* Distinguished Flying Cross with two gold award stars