Old 23rd July 2016, 04:49 PM #279
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corrado26
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Location: Black Forest, Germany
Originally Posted by fernando
They also call this symbol a christogram. (Quote)
This Nomen Sacrum IHS derives from the transkription of the first two and the last letter of the Greek name of Jesus - Iota-Eta-Sigma-Omikron-Ypsilon-Sigma or ΙΗΣΟΥΣ, = JESUS. The I is the Greek Iota, the H = Eta and the S = Sigma. So it has nothing to do with the Jesuit-association.
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Last edited by fernando; 20th October 2017 at 04:45 PM.
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