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Christian symbolism
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Christian symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity. It invests objects or actions with an inner meaning expressing Christian ideas.
The Crucifix, a cross with corpus, a symbol used in the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism, in contrast with some other Protestant denominations, Church of the East, and Armenian Apostolic Church, which use only a bare cross
The Crucifix, a cross with corpus, a symbol used in the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism, in contrast with s
Early use of a globus cruciger on a solidus minted by Leontios (r. 695–698); on the obverse, a stepped cross in the shape of an Iota Eta monogram
Early use of a globus cruciger on a solidus minted by Leontios (r. 695–698); on the obverse, a stepped cross in the shape of an Iota Eta monogram
20th–21st century Celtic cross with inscribed symbolism
20th–21st century Celtic cross with inscribed symbolism
A written Ichthys from ancient Ephesus
A written Ichthys from ancient Ephesus
Christian cross
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The Christian cross, representing the crucifixion of Jesus, is a symbol of Christianity. It is related to the crucifix, a cross that includes a corpus and to the more general family of cross symbols.
Christian symbolism
…visually have represented Jesus on the cross. Ephrem the Syrian in the 4th century explained these two united letters stating that the tau refers to the cross, and the rho refers to the Greek word "help" (Βoήθια [sic]; proper spelling: Βoήθεια) which has the numerological value in Greek of 100 as the letter…
Tomb of Darius the Great
Tomb of Darius the Great
The Alexamenos graffito
The Alexamenos graffito
The Sinai icon of Christ Pantocrator (6th century), showing Christ with a cruciform halo and holding a book adorned with a crux gemmata
The Sinai icon of Christ Pantocrator (6th century), showing Christ with a cruciform halo and holding a book adorned with a crux gemmata
An Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop with his blessing cross
An Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop with his blessing cross