Embroidered high quality Champion XP CHRISTOGRAM Jacket

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The XP christogram has to be considered to be the symbol of (Christian-) armed high quality authority. It consists of the monogram of the Greek letters X (chi) and P (rho), the first letters of ‘Christ'. It is supposed to date from the very beginning of Christianity but it received a more official meaning at the beginning of the 4th century when it was used by Constantine the Great as a symbol of his army. In many cases the letters A and ω, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, are added to the cypher.

The immediate cause for the adoption of the christogram is said to have been the vision of Constantine before the battle at the Milvian Bridge in 312.

The symbol is described by Lactantius (†320) as transversa X littera, summo capite circumflexo but is usually a monogram of the letters X and P.

The quote of Lactantius reads:

“Constantine was directed in a dream to cause the heavenly sign to be delineated on the shields of his soldiers, and so to proceed to battle. He did as he had been commanded, and he marked on their shields the letter X, with a perpendicular line drawn through it and turned round thus at the top, being the cypher of CHRIST. Having this sign, his troops stood to arms. The enemies advanced, but without their emperor, and they crossed the bridge. The armies met, and fought with the utmost exertions of valour, and firmly maintained their ground. In the meantime a sedition arose at Rome, and Maxentius was reviled as one who had abandoned all concern for the safety of the commonweal; and suddenly, while he exhibited the Circensian games on the anniversary of his reign, the people cried with one voice, "Constantine cannot be overcome!" Dismayed at this, Maxentius burst from the assembly, and having called some senators together, ordered the Sibylline books to be searched.”

In the battle of the Milvian Bridge the christogram seems to have been written on the shields of the soldiers of Constantine but soon Constantine gave it a wider use in the first place by decorating his helmet with it. Eusebius of Ceasarea (†339 ca) in his Vita Constantini, Book IX writes in Chapter 31 that:

The symbol of the Saviour's name, two letters indicating the name of Christ by means of its initial characters, the letter P being intersected by X in its centre: and these letters the emperor was in the habit of wearing on his helmet at a later period.

ITEM DESCRIPTION
Protect yourself from the elements with this Champion packable jacket. This wind and rain resistant polyester jacket with a detailed embroidery design has a practical hood, front kangaroo pocket, and zipped pouch pocket which you can pull out and use to scrunch the jacket into for convenient storage.

• 100% polyester micro poplin
• Wind and rain resistant
• Half zip pullover with a hood
• Front kangaroo pocket
• Hidden zipped pouch pocket
• Packable in the zipped pouch pocket
• Adjustable bungee draw cord at hood and bottom hem
• Elastic cuffs
• Embroidered “C” logo on the left sleeve

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