Crusader Shield Celtic Knotwork Tattoo Design camel a Christogram

a Christogram

Fashioned after the armor worn by knights called a greave

Here it is shown in several versions

is here woven into an intricate ring of Celtic knotwork as the center of a knotwork cross

Crusader Shield Celtic Knotwork Tattoo Design camel a ChristogramThe evocative image of a red Crusader cross placed inside a heraldic shield. Known since c. 1280 as the Jerusalem cross, it is a five fold cross here encircled by a custom weave of Celtic knotwork, shaped to fit the shield. The Latin text in the bar above is from the Lord's prayer FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, "Thy will be done." Ephesians 6: 12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the