The Rosicrucians : their rites and mysteries (1907)
Jennings, Hargrave, 1817?-1890 · London : George Routledge & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton & co · leaf 171
RUCIANS Weever points out, in relation to the monumentof Sir Pierce or Piers Shonke described above : Underthe Cross is a Serpent. Sir Piers Shonke is thoughtto havve been sometime the Lord of an ancient decaiedHouse, well moated, not farre from this place, called O Piers Shonkes . He flourished… … Fig. 23 in itself be sufficient to fix the heathen appropriationof these crosses (the ancient Irish crosses), as thatanimal can have no possible relation to Christianity ;whereas, by the Tuath-de-danaans, it was accountedsacred, and its maintenance enjoined by the ordinancesof the state, as it is…
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