Saint Anthony's cross

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Saint Anthony's cross is a T-shaped Christian cross traditionally associated with Saint Anthony the Great and often linked to monasticism and healing.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Saint Anthony's cross canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian cross
religious symbol
alsoKnownAs Tau cross
crux commissa
associatedWith Christian monasticism
Saint Anthony the Great
linked to: Anthony the Great

care of the sick
desert monasticism
healing
medieval healing cults
distinguishedFrom Coptic cross
Greek cross
Latin cross
St Peter's cross
hasForm vertical bar with a horizontal bar at the top
hasShape T-shaped cross
hasUnicodeRepresentation U+2020 (related dagger symbol, not exact form)
historicallyLinkedTo Order of Saint Anthony
hospitals of Saint Anthony
relatedTo Christian cross
Egyptian ankh
Franciscan Tau
resembles Greek letter tau
Latin letter T
symbolOf Saint Anthony the Great
linked to: Anthony the Great

asceticism
healing
monastic life
protection
traditionallyWornBy monks of Saint Anthony
pilgrims
usedBy Catholic Church
Christian monks
Coptic Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
usedIn Christian iconography
devotional objects
religious art

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tau cross hasVariant Saint Anthony's cross