Glass
29th June 2011, 08:42 PM
Yesterday I met someone who was sporting a fairly prominent ring. As I am a suspicious character...I obviously noted it and thought to myself this person might be a member of a brotherhood.
The ring was like a championship ring or something just to give people from the US a point of reference. We don't do championship rings down here in Oz so it's for another purpose. Anyway it was a fairly large ring. It was round with a convex smooth black centre like an onyx or something.
In the middle it had an old style silver cross that looked more square than elongated. One of the bars of the cross had another cross bar on it. So it was like 2 crosses.
I had a look around and found the Patriarchal Cross. This is kind of it except the one I saw looked square to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchal_cross
It is also called the ring of Lorraine (http://magnum-mania.com/Articles/The_Team_Ring.html).
I also did a bit more searching and found this image which is almost exactly what the cross ring looked like. THe only difference was this one was convex and not concave.
http://magnum-mania.com/images/1_1_c_full.jpg
Ok so does anyone have an idea what this ring is indicating the person wearing it was into. According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchal_cross) this cross was used extensively in the past. The knights Templar used it during the crusades.
I've looked at Freemasonry rings (http://www.masonic-lodge-of-education.com/masonic-rings.html) and while they are big and ostentatious like this ring it wasn't one of these.
The person wearing this ring is english. It could be possible that they had some military time in a past life. I'm not sure but maybe they are ex military or special forces. They could also be in a brotherhood or some sort.
Anyway I wondered if anyone out there had seen one of these rings before and could shed some light on it for me?
Cheers
The ring was like a championship ring or something just to give people from the US a point of reference. We don't do championship rings down here in Oz so it's for another purpose. Anyway it was a fairly large ring. It was round with a convex smooth black centre like an onyx or something.
In the middle it had an old style silver cross that looked more square than elongated. One of the bars of the cross had another cross bar on it. So it was like 2 crosses.
I had a look around and found the Patriarchal Cross. This is kind of it except the one I saw looked square to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchal_cross
It is also called the ring of Lorraine (http://magnum-mania.com/Articles/The_Team_Ring.html).
I also did a bit more searching and found this image which is almost exactly what the cross ring looked like. THe only difference was this one was convex and not concave.
http://magnum-mania.com/images/1_1_c_full.jpg
Ok so does anyone have an idea what this ring is indicating the person wearing it was into. According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchal_cross) this cross was used extensively in the past. The knights Templar used it during the crusades.
I've looked at Freemasonry rings (http://www.masonic-lodge-of-education.com/masonic-rings.html) and while they are big and ostentatious like this ring it wasn't one of these.
The person wearing this ring is english. It could be possible that they had some military time in a past life. I'm not sure but maybe they are ex military or special forces. They could also be in a brotherhood or some sort.
Anyway I wondered if anyone out there had seen one of these rings before and could shed some light on it for me?
Cheers