page_title: Cross pattée
section_title: Poland
hierarchical_section_title: Cross pattée / Poland
caption_attribution_description: English: Film image, taken in January 1997. Posted on Flickr on Nov. 11, 2010. Released to public domain on Jan. 10, 2019.
context_page_description: A cross pattée, is a type of Christian cross with arms that are narrow at the centre, and often flared in a curve or straight line shape, to be broader at the perimeter. The form appears very early in medieval art; for example in a metalwork treasure binding given to Monza Cathedral by Queen Theodelinda, and the 8th century lower cover of the Lindau Gospels in the Morgan Library. An early English example from the start of the age of heraldry proper is found in the arms of Baron Berkeley.
caption: Guards at Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw. Behind them, the Virtuti Militari emblem.
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