Earlier today, the Biblical Archaeology Society published an article in their 'Bible History Daily' section that caught my eye:
Jesus and the Cross - How the cross became Christianity’s most popular symbol
From the second paragraph
of the contribution we read:
Scholars believe that the first surviving public
image of Jesus's crucifixion
was on the fifth-century wooden doors of the Basilica of Santa Sabina, which is
located on the Aventine Hill in Rome. Since it took approximately 400 years for
Jesus’s crucifixion to become an acceptable public image, scholars have
traditionally believed that this means the cross did not originally function as
a symbol for Christians.
Grace
and peace,
