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22:43 · This is the crux immissa, crux capitata, or Latin cross. A symbol for Christianity, death (on tombstones and in funeral advertisements), sorrow, and for Christ's death on the cross, salvation and the hope of an eternal life.
    For facts about this most Western of ideograms, see 03:1 in Group 3.

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