RARE ANTIQUE c.18th CENTURY ORTHODOX OLD BELIEVERS CROSS with JESUS PRAYER TEXT for Sale

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RARE ANTIQUE c.18th CENTURY ORTHODOX OLD BELIEVERS CROSS with JESUS PRAYER TEXT For Sale

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RARE ANTIQUE c.18th CENTURY ORTHODOX OLD BELIEVERS CROSS with JESUS PRAYER TEXT:
$89.00

The obverse bears an image of the three-bar Suppedaneum cross. The three-bar cross is venerated as the true Savior\'s Cross in the Eastern Orthodox and some Eastern Catholic churches. Such a cross has three horizontal crossbeams: the top one represents the \"INRI\" nameplate, and the bottom one, a footrest. The footrest crossbeam is depicted pointing up, toward Heaven, on Christ\'s right hand side where the Penitent thief, St. Dismas was crucified.

The top end of the vertical crossbar of the pendant bears an abbreviated inscription in Church Slavonic meaning \"KING OF GLORY IC XC (JESUS CHRIST)\". The Kingship of Jesus is also symbolized by the shape of the necklace loop resembling the shape of a Byzantine-style crown. The horizontal crossbar is filled with another inscription in Church Slavonic “РАСПЯТЪ БЫСТЬ” meaning \"WAS CRUCIFIED\".

Parallel to the vertical crossbar, there are images of the two Instruments of the Passion (Arms of Christ, Arma Christi), the Holy Lance (spear) of a Roman soldier, and the Holy Sponge attached to the end of a cane. They are subjects to adoration along with the Cross, and are often depicted on the Byzantine-style \"Golgotha\" crosses worn as baptism body crosses for the entire life of a faithful Christian.

A tiny symbolic image of the skull, or Adam\'s head, buried below the Savior\'s Cross refers to Golgotha (Calvary), the elevated site where Jesus was crucified, which the Bible says means \"the place of the skull\" in Hebrew. An ancient tradition of Catholic and Orthodox Churches held that it was also the burial place of Adam, thus also symbolizing the ultimate victory of Christ over sin and death.

The reverseis filled with abbreviated Church Slavonic text of the prayer to Lord Jesus according to the Russian Orthodox tradition translating as: \"LORD JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD, BLESS, SANCTIFY AND PROTECT ME BY THE POWER OF YOUR LIFE-GIVING CROSS\".

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