Potencée cross
A potencée cross (☩, Unicode U+2629) is a cross with the equal arms which end in crosses in tau, from where its name. The potencée cross was adopted by Godefroy de Bouillon for the Royaume of Jerusalem, whose blazon is money , with the potencée cross of gold, confined of four small crosses of very the .
It was then taken again by the Père Sevin in 1916 as signs recognition for its scouts Belgian which could not carry of uniform, the Scoutisme being prohibited by the German army occupying the country. At the time of the foundation of the catholic National federation of the scouts of France in 1920, this symbol was chooses like badge and was spread then quickly among the other foreign organizations scoutes. So the potencée cross is generally regarded as the distinctive sign of the catholic organizations scoutes.
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