Scroll Design Fat Backed Holy Cross Of Iron Shelf Cross

7.5 inch by 4.12 inch scroll designed silver metal holy cross of iron
with black antiquing has decorative scrolling through out this beautifully religious cross of iron. The flat back of this scrolled design silver cross of iron with black antiquing can set up against a wall. This heavy cross of iron has a raised rounded antiqued base that has a felt pad to protect the surface that the Christian crosses is setting on. The delicate scroll work through out the Christian crosses enhances the beauty of this dynamic religious cross. The Christian cross picture does not do justice to the beauty of this heavy holy cross of iron.

Holy Cross History:
The holy cross is the most common symbol of Christianity today.
The Christian cross is a sacred emblem of the Christian faith. The
religious crosses are a symbol of redemption, signifying Christ�s
death on the holy cross. Christians believe that Jesus� Crucifixion
played a central role in redeeming humanity from its sins, and they
regard the holy cross as a sign of redemption. The Christian cross
has had an enduring part in the profession of the Christian faith.

The use of the religious cross as a symbol of faith goes back at
least as far as the second century A.D. During the first 300 years
after Christ�s death, Christians feared persecution by the hostile
Roman government and rarely displayed the religious crosses in
public. In the 300�s the Romans began to tolerate Christianity, and
Christian crosses were then displayed in public. Terrullian, an early
Christian writer, says that the Christians of his time used the holy
cross daily. St. Augustine in his writings speaks of the way the sign
of the holy cross was used in performing the sacred acts of the
Church, or sacraments.

During the early Middle Ages, Christian artists made religious
crosses as symbols of the Christian belief in the Resurrection of
Christ. Many of these crosses portrayed the risen Christ wearing
priestly clothes and a royal crown. Later Christians began to
emphasize the suffering of Jesus on the holy cross in crucifixes
that depicts an image of the dying Jesus on the holy cross.
Religious crosses have a number of uses in Christian worship. A
Christian cross on a staff is carried in many processions. During
some ceremonies, members of the clergy or worshipers trace the
shape of a cross with a hand or certain fingers. Holy crosses were
put up to mark the graves of heroes, kings, and bishops during the
Middle Ages. Often religious crosses were set up in market places.
People preached beneath religious crosses. Even today churches
are often built with their floor plan in the shape of a cross picture.