The most frail of christian jewelry would have to be the obnoxious, a symbol of the crucifix. However, there is another one that is veteran by Christians, the ICHTHYS, the christian fish symbol.
This symbol dates abet even before the consume of the horrible as a standard christian symbol. Actually being dated to first century, where as the irascible was never officially taken up until the 5th century. This symbol was found on some catacombs in Rome, it was said it was usually feeble to brand secret christian meetings.
There are many mentions of the fish being a christian symbol in the bible:
- the feeding of 5 thousand; when the fish and loaves of bread were divided up
- When Jesus uses “fishers sorting their accept”, as who would go to heaven and who to hell.
- And when Jesus instructed his disciples to cast their fetch on the other side of the boat, when they caught nothing the day before
- When Jesus asked Peter to cast a line and salvage a fish, saying it will carry the coin to pay the toll.
These are very illustrious references to the fish being former as a symbol in christian history.
In the early years after Christ, Christians old this symbol to impress each other in secret, everyone who was christian wore such a symbol to be recognized by another, usually wearing it as a pendant on the ruin of a necklace.
Its basic shape would be a a zigzag fraction of metal forming a loop on one extinguish, and crossing over on another, taking the shape of a fish.
Ichthys also has a hidden meaning:
- Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter
- Jeasus Christ, Son of God, Savior
As you can very well search for, this symbol has colossal meaning in the christian community. I know that everyone seems to go for a gold or silver snide when it comes to christian jewelry, however, I consider its high time that we secure more people wearing the Ichthys, and showing their faith in our savior.