Children's Corner - Sermons for Youth

 

The Jerusalem Cross:

The Jerusalem Cross is also called the Crusader's Cross, and the Five-Fold Cross. It is made-up of four Tau Crosses, which meet in the center. Four small Greek Crosses appear in the four corners.

Usually, the Jerusalem Cross is red. The five crosses represent the wounds of Jesus: big cross (wounded side or heart), and the four small crosses: (hands and feet).

The Jerusalem Cross was widely used by the Crusaders, and was said to symbolize the major European powers: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Sometimes the four small crosses indicate the four corners of the earth to which missionaries have carried the Gospel, since the days of the original church in Jerusalem--represented by the large cross.