Tau Cross

There are eight tau crosses erected at the Ashram campus. The Greek Alphabet tau is used in the ancient hand written copies of the New Testament, P66, P45 and P75 as a short symbol for cross (T) in the papyrus. This is called in different names as St. Antony’s Cross, Old Testament Cross, Anticipatory Cross, Egyptian Cross and Cross of St. Francis. This cross is also viewed as a symbol of Aaron and Hur lifting the hands of Moses as found in Ex. 17:11. This cross is also accepted as the symbolic logo of the Franciscan order. In the tau crosses erected in the Ashram, there are seven lamps fixed to represent the church which is the Body of Christ (Rev.1:20). The number ‘eight’ has been taken from the eight ‘I am sayings’ of Jesus Christ in John’s gospel and the eight beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus from Mathew’s gospel (Matt. 5:3-10).