Brendan the Navigator Tattoo with Celtic Waves Design gauntlet and his wife's initial in

and his wife's initial in the heart

The center of the cross is this evocative wheel

By adding a second Celtic knotwork outer ring the pattern expands to fill the upper arm

body armor

Brendan the Navigator Tattoo with Celtic Waves Design gauntlet and his wife's initial inSaint Brendan the Navigator, the brave voyager who sailed all the way to the Americas in a cowhide boat. Patron saint of all those who journey over the waves. The saint's depiction in the tattoo is a copy of an old wooden chair found inside the Cathedral of St. Brendan in Clonfert, Ireland. Around it are Pictish spirals representing the waves he journeyed over.