St Anthony Cross, Tau Cross
A cross deriving its name from the resemblance it bears to the Greek letter T. It is also termed the Cross Commisse, used as the token of absolution and with which malefactors were stamped on the hand. “Mark with tau the foreheads of them that mourn,” Ezekiel, Chap. ix. v. 4,
Cross tau, ends convexed, mounted upon three grieces, or steps.
