This coin with the symbolism of the anchor may relate to the founding of Herod’s magnificent port at Caesarea Maritima circa 22-9 B.C. Herod was the king during the birth of Jesus Christ, which modern scholars attribute to about as far back as 6 B.C. He is the man responsible for...
None of the above questions had any partucular relevance in the days before the Spanish explorers and colonizers reached the New World. The known world in 1491 appeared to conform roughly to the biblical model, with Asia, Africa and Europe supplying all the lands necessary to encompass the "en...
PELICAN, in Christian symbolism. , A figure of this bird "vulning herself" — that is, feeding her young with her own blood — was common in old churches, the allusion being emblematic of our redemption through the sufferings of Christ. The pelican often surmounts the cross. A brass ...