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Original dedication to St Lua? Possible site of St Leoc's Celtic monastery Circular burial ground Stonework: Manx National Heritage stonework inventory nos. 8, 120 Pevsner Isle of Man, pp. 270-1…

Original dedication to St Lua? Possible site of St Leoc’s Celtic monasteryMonastery The house of a religious community

Circular burial ground

Stonework:

Manx National Heritage stonework inventory nos. 8, 120

Pevsner Isle of Man, pp. 270-1

10thC memorial stone crossCross Instrument of torture and execution used in the Roman Empire. The means by which Christ was put to death and therefore the primary symbol of the Christian faith, representing the means by which he is believed to have won forgiveness for humankind. The Cross may be represented as Tau-shaped (like a capital T); with a shorter cross-bar or with a circle enclosing the upper intersection (Celtic). In medieval art a cross made of living branches signifies the Tree of Life. St Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, is said to have discovered the True Cross (i.e. the Cross in Jerusalem on which Christ died) in 326.-shaft with Norse paganPagan Derived from Latin paganus, the Roman term for a rural dweller, this word came to be applied to those who were not Christian, particularly the followers of the classical religion of Greece and Rome and those who followed the pre-Christian religions of Europe imagery