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What does the symbol of P with a line through the bottom of the P (like a fallen cross) mean?
 
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What does the symbol of P with a line through the bottom of the P (like a fallen cross) mean?
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It’s called a Chi Ro and is found in the catacombs. It is thought to represent Peter (P) and Christ (X).
 
It is chi rho, but I believe it stands for Christ, chi (x) being the first Greek letter in the word Christ, and rho (p), which is an r, being the second. It is an abbreviation.

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Jessica
 
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It is chi rho, but I believe it stands for Christ, chi (x) being the first Greek letter in the word Christ, and rho (p), which is an r, being the second. It is an abbreviation.

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Jessica
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Didn’t Constantine or someone see the symbol in a dream? That’s what I heard, then he made his army paint that on their sheilds.
 
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Didn’t Constantine or someone see the symbol in a dream? That’s what I heard, then he made his army paint that on their sheilds.
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**BecomeLowly **is correct about the derivation of the Chi-Rho. Constantine, as I understand, had a vision of the Cross, and the message *In Hoc Signo Vinces, *“By this sign you will conquer,” which he had the Cross emblazoned on his army’s shields.

(And, no: *In Hoc Signo… *is not where the letters IHS derive. Rather, those are the first 3 Greek letters of the name of Jesus, Iota-Eta-Sigma. Why the sigma is transliterated to S while the eta is not into E I do not know. Sometimes it is done as miniscule Greek/Latin, “ihc”)

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**BecomeLowly **is correct about the derivation of the Chi-Rho. Constantine, as I understand, had a vision of the Cross, and the message *In Hoc Signo Vinces, *“By this sign you will conquer,” which he had the Cross emblazoned on his army’s shields.
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I may be mistaken, and perhaps Constantine did invent (or popularize (along with the rest of Christianity)) the chi-rho.

Constantine’s Vision and Dream(s)

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