I thought Latin was the domain of the church down the street, but in case you’re not up on your knowledge of 2000 year old languages, The phrase translates as The Cross of Christ is the key of Paradise.

Pretend that the Romans had semi-automatic rifles back in the day and that’s how they put Jesus to death. Churches around the world would have statues of Jesus’s head being blown off by a round of armor piercing bullets.

Yeah, pretty sick right? But killing someone by nailing them to a cross is so cool let’s make icons of the scene, and use the method of torture as the official symbol of our religion.