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    A cross potent (plural: crosses potent), also known as a crutch cross, is a form of heraldic cross with crossbars at the four ends. In French, it is known...
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    cross (also known as "five-fold Cross", or "cross-and-crosslets") is a heraldic cross and Christian cross variant consisting of a large cross potent surrounded...
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    cross, the double-barred cross, triple-barred cross, cross-and-crosslets, and many heraldic variants, such as the cross potent, cross pattée, cross moline...
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    the order's history, including a Latin cross, a cross potent, cross fleury, and occasionally also a cross pattée. When the Quadriga of the Goddess of Peace...
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    Heraclian dynasty (7th century), coins also depict simply crosses potent, patty, or pommy. The cross was used as a field sign by the Christian troops during...
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    specific Christian cross variants, viz. the Patriarchal cross (☦), Cross of Lorraine (☨) and Cross potent (☩, mistakenly labeled a "Cross of Jerusalem")....
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    discoveries and the Portuguese Empire. The cross can be considered a variant of the cross pattée or the cross potent. As the Order of Christ, led by Prince...
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    connects the "cross potent" bronzeware script glyph for wu 巫 with the same shape found in Neolithic West Asia, specifically a cross potent carved in the...
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    The Cross of Saint Peter, also known as the Petrine Cross, is an inverted Latin cross traditionally used as a Christian symbol, but in recent times, it...
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    prevailing type featured on the obverse a bust in front and on the reverse a cross potent resting on a base (simple for the tremissis, of three or four steps for...
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