Dec 08 2005
XP The ‘Monogram of Christ’
From the NewAdvent Catholic encyclopedia description of XP (Chi Rho) as a symbol generally well known by European Christians:
"By the Monogram of Christ is ordinarily understood the abbreviation of Christ’s name formed by combining the first two letters of the Greek form… …The Greek letters XP combined in a monogram occur on pre-Christian coins (e. g. the Attic tetradrachma and some coins of the Ptolemies)"
In the UK the XP symbol often adorns altercloths, churchwall carvings, windowglass etc. A small informal survey of local (US NW) Christians suggests that this symbol is not well, if at all, known here. XP is an abbreviation of the name of Christ, God. The King James version of the ten commandments, #3 points out that:
"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain"
Apparently Microsoft once had a project called ‘Cairo’ that never came to completion.
The greek letter X (Chi) is a potential source of the abbreviation Xmas.
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