History of the cross : the pagan origin, and idolatrous adoption and worship, of the image (1871)
Ward, Henry Dana, 1797-1884 · London : J. Nisbet · leaf 72
COPIES OF MEDALS AND COINS OF CONSTANTINE. 61 If the reader cannot here see the wooden cross, he mustblame Constantine; for this monogram was the Glory ofthe Army, and of the empire, until displaced by themodern cross of the Ajjoatasy. Below is a medal showing on the face the bust of Con-stantinns… … The following is a medal of the Emperor Jovian, fromBar. Ann., a.d. 367, sec. 1. This figure, universally called the cross, is the monogram found in the Catacombs,until the Pontificate of Damasus, when the Latin crossbegins to appear.
Crosses · Symbolism
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