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3 unusual facts about Globus cruciger


Åre Old Church

The statue does not show him as usual with an orb in his left hand and a war axe in his right wearing a crown, but only with an orb in his left hand wearing a tricorne uniform hat of the Caroleans.

Erlenbach am Main

Both seals showed a crowned two-headed eagle holding a monarch’s orb in the right talon and a sword in the left.

Glover Mausoleum

The low-pitched masonry roof is topped by a granite orb and cross.


Crown of Augustus II the Strong

Two monks Aleksander Wyhowski, prior of Czerwińsk and Mikołaj Wyżycki, prior of the Holy Cross made a hole in the castle's wall and got to the vault from which they stole the crown, scepter, sword and orb.


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