This is the Tau Cross. In the Bible, in the book called Numbers, we read about a time when God's people were wandering in the desert. They complained to Moses and to God. God sent poisonous snakes, and the people cried out to God for help. Then God told Moses to make a snake and raise it up on a staff or a pole for all the people to see. If the people were bitten by a snake but looked at the bronze snake on the pole, they would not die, but live. It is said
that the Tau cross is in the shape of the staff Moses raised in the desert for all to look at and receive life.
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