What does the Celtic cross with a skull mean?

Answer 1

Having seen a Celtic cross in a graveyard and also peered at the gaping eyes sockets of a skull is in a sense staring at Death but a Celtic cross together with a skull, now that's a very different story,my story that is. To begin with I will have to take you back some fifteen hundred years ago when a weatlhy Roman soldier and deacon had his sixteen year old son named Maewyn Succat captured by Irish raiders. After being sold as a slave the young lad,so named Patricius, worked as a shepard eating pig slop to survive while his only companion was a wolfhound.Six years on Patricius had learned the celtic language and became accustomed to seeing skulls that had been either been severed in battle by his captor or by his battle ready wolfhounds.The life of a barbarian intrigued Patricius being a non believer himself yet these pagans worshipped the sun and the moon, performed human sacrifices and you guessed it, they idolised the skull. Realising his head could be the next one warming the pole and having a spritual one on one with God, Patricius escaped his mountain squalor. Many years on and now a much better educated person of the faith Paticius was drawn back to Ireland and those in need of his help. Patricius had a gift and that was he understood the Irish people and what it meant to be respected, just like the skulls he saw them revere.The celtic cross was his way of joining their beliefs with his own beliefs and along with a skull, that temple sitting on shouldered mountains,it was all to do with Respect. by B. Kingsford.- Skulls of Soul.