the Catholic Saint Mary's Church, with an even taller steeple and a cross on top, stood on Ball Street.

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

Quadruple combination opened to the Book of Isaiah-note the cross references between Biblical and Latter-day Saint scripture in the footnotes

With a red felt-tip pen, Osborn began to scrawl a Saint Andrew's cross circumscribed inside a chalice on his placemat.

Allen and about 100 men crossed the Saint Lawrence that night, but Brown and his men, who were to cross the river at Laprairie, did not.

The crucifix, " Saint Jadwiga's cross ," is still there, with her relics beneath it.

Another hero of the Grail quest, Sir Galahad ( a 13th-century literary invention of monks from St. Bernard's Cistercian Order ) was depicted bearing a shield with the cross of Saint George, similar to the Templars ' insignia: this version presented the " Holy " Grail as a Christian relic.

Wrapped in scarlet cloth and drawn by three yoke of oxen that were caparisoned in white with the red cross of Saint George, the city's patron, it carried a crucifix so massive it took four men to step it in place, like a ship's mast.

Saint Piran's Flag, a white cross on a black background, is used as a symbol of Cornwall.

Saint Piran's Flag consists of a white cross on a black field

* Saint Piran ' rediscovered ' tin-smelting ( tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans ' arrival, but the methods had since been lost ) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross ( thus the image on the flag ).

The Church of Saint Oswald stands on the location of the wooden cross left by Oswald at Heavenfield, the night before the battle.

The " Colours of Saint George ", or St George's Cross are a white flag with a red cross, frequently borne by entities over which he is patron ( e. g. the Republic of Genoa and then Liguria, England, Georgia, Catalonia, Aragon, etc.

Men's and women's track & field and cross country have been added as a varsity sport for 2010 / 2011 ; this is a joint Fredericton / Saint John Campus program.

Saint Veronica or Berenice, according to the " Acta Sanctorum " published by the Bollandists ( under February 4 ), was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha, gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead.

* Saint Andrew, Christian apostle and Saint Peter's brother: crucified, according to tradition, on an X-shaped cross, hence the name St. Andrew's Cross

Here, in the extensive longleaf pine forest, he erected a cross in what he named " El Pinal de la Cruz de Santa Teresa " ( the Pine Forest of the Cross of Saint Theresa ).

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

Saint James ' cross.

The arms show five Saint Andrew's crosses, forming a larger cross.

The cross is taken from a large painting in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, in which the death of King Olav Haraldsson ( Saint Olaf ) is shown.

According to legend, the Christian apostle and martyr Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, was crucified on an X-shaped cross at Patras, ( Patrae ), in Achaea.

Use of a simplified symbol associated with Saint Andrew which does not depict his image, namely the saltire, or crux decussata, ( from the Latin crux, ' cross ', and decussis, ' having the shape of the Roman numeral X '), has its origins in the late 14th century ; the Parliament of Scotland having decreed in 1385 that Scottish soldiers shall wear a white Saint Andrew's Cross on their person, both in front and behind, for the purpose of identification.

Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).

In Australia, Argiope keyserlingi and A. aetherea are known as St. Andrew's Cross spiders, for their habit of resting in the web with legs outstretched in the shape of an X, the cross of St. Andrew.

The cross of St. Andrew referred to in the law is a diagonal cross, known in vexillology as a saltire.

The Cross of Burgundy represents the cross on which St. Andrew was crucified.

However, in objecting strongly to the form and pattern of Union Flag adopted by James ' heralds, whereby the cross of Saint George surmounted that of Saint Andrew, ( regarded in Scotland as a slight upon the Scottish nation ), a great number of shipmasters and ship-owners in Scotland took up the matter with John Erskine, 18th Earl of Mar, and encouraged him to send a letter of complaint, dated 7 August 1606, to James VI, via the Privy Council of Scotland, stating:

The U. S. state of Alabama's flag is officially " a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white ", however the reference is used only to describe the shape without using the vexillological term saltire.

A saltire, or Saint Andrew's Cross, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross ☓ or letter x. Saint Andrew is said to have been martyred on such a cross.

In the Russian Orthodox tradition, the phrase Saint Andrew's Cross is often equated with the Orthodox cross, because of the tradition that Saint Andrew used such a cross when preaching in the respective regions.

On the distinctive unit insignia, the blue saltire ( cross of St. Andrew ) alludes to New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific where the division was created and first activated on 27 May 1942.

) The central X, a cross of St. Andrew, is also the Greek letter Chi, first letter of Χριστός, Greek for " Christ ".

Peter claimed he had been visited by St. Andrew, who told him that the Holy Lance, which pierced Christ's side as he was on the cross, was located in Antioch.

The supporters were: dexter a unicorn of Scotland imperially crowned, supporting a tilting lance flying a banner Azure a saltire Argent ( Cross of Saint Andrew ) and sinister the crowned lion of England supporting a similar lance flying a banner Argent a cross Gules ( Cross of Saint George ).

It consists of the red cross of Saint George ( patron saint of England ), edged in white, superimposed on the Cross of St Patrick ( patron saint of Ireland ), which are superimposed on the Saltire of Saint Andrew ( patron saint of Scotland ).

In at least one episode, the Disciples of Christ denominational logo ( St. Andrew cross and chalice ) is displayed prominently on the front of the church's pulpit.

According to legend, Achaius, King of Scots ( possibly coming to the aid of Óengus mac Fergusa, King of the Picts ), while engaged in battle at Athelstaneford with the Saxon King Æthelstan of East Anglia, saw in the heavens the cross of St Andrew.

A French commentator writing in 1558 described the use of the crowned thistle and the cross of St Andrew on Scottish coins and war banners, and added that there was no Scottish order of knighthood.

Gaines had been given orders by President Andrew Jackson not to cross the Sabine River into Texas.

The red saltire of the Cross of Burgundy represents the cross on which St. Andrew was crucified.