CELTIC CROSS
The Cross, for so long neglected in Protestant worship, calls to mind the life
and death of our Redeemer, and its form, the Cross which has a circle around the arms, reminds
us that the Presbyterian Church in Canada is a daughter Church of the Church of Scotland, to
which the Gospel came from Ireland by way of the settlement at Iona. It is in Ireland and on the
west coast of Scotland that we find this ancient form of the cross, hence its name, the Celtic,
or Ionic Cross.
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