Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — Signing With a Cross. [ARTICLE]

Signing With a Cross.

Persons who cannot write their names are required to use. as a substitute the sign of the cross (X). Anciently kings and nobles used the same sign, but not ignorantly. It was used by those who could write as well as by those who could not as a symbol that the person making .it pledged himself by his CEffstian faith to the truth of the matter to which he affixed the cross. Hence, although people now write or subscribe their names, they are still said to sign,—From the Ave Maria. “