1950s OLD CRUCIFIX PENDANT STERLING SILVER Hancarved Bamboo Coral For Sale

Celebrate your faith with a meaningful cross  pendant A vintage 1950s sterling silver Christian cross pendant or crucifix. The piece is embellished with a hand carved Salmon Bamboo Coral Flower cabochon The Bible mentions corals three times (Job 28:18; Lamentations 4:7 and Ezekiel 27:16) and in all three what is stressed is the fact that value of precious stones was ascribed to them in ancient times. The Hebrew term is ramoth, which means “of great value”, and was translated in the Septuaguint as metéora.   The backside. Marked 925 P Total Weight:13.1GRAMS Vintage

Dimensions: 2\"¼×1\"½ 9mmwide The history of cross  Although the cross or the crucifix is now exclusively considered Christian, symbolic Jewelry, the use of the cross began well before the dawn of the Christian religious era. It was long considered a symbol powerful enough to drive away evil. Even the vestal virgins of Rome who served in the temple of Vespa would sport the cross necklace, dangling down to their waist much in the way modern-day nuns the catholic order wear them.

With the advent of Christianity, new importance was attached to the crucifix; it was seen as a symbol of Christ and his sacrifice for humankind. Over time, it became a symbolic piece of Jewelry that was often sported by anybody who had faith in the Church and had renounced the materialistic way of life or was in mourning.