This symbol is a combination of the ancient Greek letters 'Chi' and 'Rho', which give the first two letters of 'Christ' in ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

Chi is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός (Christos ... Christians in the Roman Empire often used the Chi-Rho (☧) symbol to mark their tombs where they worshipped and any ...

Some early Christians made the Greek word for fish ... be that Constantine's influence so established the chi-rho that no alternative symbol was necessary. It functioned very much like a bare ...

The best known of these early symbols is the fish. Koine Greek was the common language of ... early representations of the crucifixion is the chi-rho, which is associated the Emperor Constantine ...