Sterling Silver Religious Jewelry and Cross Jewelry

Silver Religious Jewelry

Religious jewelry is a major genre of specialty jewelry. Under religious jewelry is any type of jewelry with religious icons. This could mean that under religious jewelry there could be Hindu jewelry, Jewish jewelry, Buddhist jewelry, Cross jewelry and Christian jewelry.

In America if you were to search for "religious jewelry" you would find most results had a great deal of cross jewelry, cross necklaces, cross pendants, cross rings and cross earrings.

Since I am an American I will talk about the American version of religious jewelry...Cross jewelry.

The cross jewelry we will be discussing is sterling silver cross jewelry because the most popular type of cross jewelry is sterling silver made cross jewelry.

In the cross jewelry genre comes cross necklaces, cross rings, cross pendants, cross charms, and cross earrings. The list of cross jewelry pictures shows a few examples of what type of silver cross jewelry there is.

Cross jewelry is the most popular type of Christian jewelry because the cross is the most important and popular Christian icon. But that has not always been the case. The first popular Christian symbol was the Christian fish. It was popular just after the original apostles and continued for 400 to 600 years AD The reason of its diminished popularity is that the cross started becoming accepted as a great Christian icon.

It is an interesting note that the Christian fish is still popular in religious jewelry. It is not nearly popular as is cross jewelry but it's still a sought after type of jewelry under religious jewelry. As we talk about a cross ring or cross necklace we're talking about a empty cross not a crucifix which is not nearly as popular as cross jewelry.

Pretty much everyone knows that the symbolism of the empty cross is related to the risen Lord but there is a little more symbolism than that.

The cross has four ends, that number four represents Mercy, Grace, Love and Forgiveness. Depending on the cross pendant there can be even more symbolism like with a Celtic cross necklace.

I think after this review of cross jewelry we can see why it is so popular withing the religious jewelry genre.