Old Rite Traditional Orthodox Cross

Also known as an Old Believer CrossSize: 3.0 cm x 1.7 cmCrosses blessed in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the stone of the Anointing. The front of the cross pendant bears a Byzantine-like three-bar Subpedaneum cross and inscriptions in Church Slavonic. The three-bar cross is used in the Eastern Orthodox and some Eastern Catholic churches. Such a cross has three horizontal crossbeams: the top one represents the "INRI" nameplate, and the bottom one, a footrest. The footrest crossbeam is depicted pointing up, toward Heaven, on Christ's right-hand side where the Penitent thief, St. Dismas was crucified on the right.  To either side of the cross there are images of the two Instruments of the Passion (Arms of Christ, Arma Christi);the Holy Lance (spear) of a Roman soldier, and the Holy Sponge attached to a cane, along with several inscriptions with Cyrillic letters, and an image of the skull, or the Adam's head buried below the cross. The skull, or Adam's head, below the image of the cr