Meaning of sign of the cross | Babel Free

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A gesture of the hand moving over the front of one's body, or over an object, in the shape of a cross made as part of ritual or to invoke divine protection.

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“If a morsel of food fell off your plate, the advice of one contemporary document was to pick it up, make the sign of the cross over it, season it well - and then eat it. The sign of the cross was the antiseptic of the year 1000.”

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