Cross Tattoos

Cross tattoos are one of the fastest-growing types of body modification available. They offer religious people a way to visually express their faith as well as allow secular individuals to transform their own experience with the spiritual nature that a cross tattoo can convey. Whatever individual meaning you might ascribe to the image of a cross, one can’t deny the potency of the cross tattoo as a powerful spiritual symbol.

Cross tattoos may be trendy now, but they were even trendier back in the Anglo- Saxon days. Crusaders entering the Holy Land from Europe would mark their hands with a cross, not so much as a celebration of their faith, but as an indication that they wanted a Christian burial. And members of the Coptic Church in Egypt, the first country to choose Christianity as its official religion, considered a trip to the holy land without some form of religious tattoo to be incomplete.

Today cross tattoos range from the decorative to the sublime. There are the extremely popular Catholic cross tattoos, which often act as emblems of an individual’s belief and their counterparts, the Christian cross tattoos which many young people use as a way to testify their faith to other people. Then there is the Celtic cross tattoo, with its intricate and complex pattern that is popular with religious and secular folk alike. The Celtic cross is the perfect synthesis of Christian imagery, with a Celtic pre-Christian symbolism that evokes an ancient culture that emphasized the harmony of nature above all things.

The cross tattoo proves that the cross is a powerful, yet adaptable symbol. Many different variations are available and a myriad of styles and techniques are at your disposal. By choosing a tattoo design that is meaningful to you, you will not simply be getting a ‘trendy tat’---but an enduring symbol that has been used by mankind for 2000 years.

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