16-02-2022, 07:22 PM
(15-02-2022, 01:45 PM)Scarecrow wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As a Franciscan symbol, the TAU, resembling the Cross, is a sign of conversion. Because of his affection and devotion to the cross of Christ, St. Francis used this sign as his personal signature.Yes, this is a good example of the sign's popularity. And as you say it is still to this day an important symbol for Franciscans. A recent You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about the modern faith states that "many Franciscans wear such a cross on a piece of leather and Franciscan pilgrimage programs often begin by giving each participant such a cross". It explains that the TAU reminds Franciscans of St. Francis' saying: "Let us begin again".
Also, after St. Francis' death in 1226, St. Bonaventure's writings popularized the idea that St. Francis was associated with the "angel of the sixth seal" of Revelation.
(15-02-2022, 11:26 PM)Searcher wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I only don't understand, why only sixth seal is here. Maybe, you will reveal the rest in your further posts. For now, I don't see the same sequence of events of the Revelation in the Rosettes diagram.We don't intend to make the argument that all events of Revelation are necessarily present in the Rosettes diagram. Although we think that references to the sixth seal in the top right rosette are only a piece of a larger puzzle, that larger puzzle may reference certain aspects of Revelation without including its entire sequence of events.