 Wooden Wall Crosses
We would love to share these beautifully crafted crosses with you and your family.
Why 3 Bars?In the Russian Orthodox Church, the most common form of the Cross is the so-called three-bar Cross. These consist of the usual crossbeam, to which the hands of Jesus were nailed, a shorter crossbeam above representing the signboard on which was written, in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews" (John 19:19), and another, slanted, crossbeam below, to which His precious feet were nailed. The three-bar representation existed in Christian art from very early times in Byzantium, although usually without the bottom bar slanted, which is particularly Russian. The origin of this slanted footboard is not known, but in the symbolism of the Russian Church, the most common explanation is that it is the pointing upward to Paradise for the Good Thief on Jesus' right and downward to Hell for the Thief on His left (Luke 23). The photo above is our granddaughter Evelyn Joy and she is three years old. When I showed her the crosses I was making she just loved them and I asked if she wanted one. She did and was so happy to have it. Copyright © [Orthodox Christian Cassettes,
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These wooden wall crosses are great for home or office.
We use one for our own home devotional corner. Made in my
Arkansas wood shop, we use solid native red oak, stained and finished with lacquer. Occasionally, we use other woods and are happy to entertain special
orders. 
