The anchor became a key Christian symbol during the period of Roman persecution. As Michael Card observes in his recent album, Soul Anchor: "The first century symbol wasn't the cross; it was the ...

it was not part of Christian iconography, or symbols, until the fourth century. Then, explicit depictions of the crucifixion first occurred as an empty cross. However, the crucifix itself ...

As early as the first century, Christians made an acrostic from ... the 5,000 with 2 fishes and 5 loaves (a meal recapitulated in Christian love-feasts) and called his disciples "fishers of ...