The tradition of only eating fish on Good Friday comes from a Catholic rule of not consuming the meat of warm-blooded animals on Fridays. When this rule was decreed by the Catholic Church, many opted ...

In the early Church, when Christians were being persecuted, Christians would use the fish symbol as ... Anyone who was not a Christian would not recognise the symbol and so would not complete ...

The Christian identity of the site's inhabitants is confirmed by the discovery of three plaster crosses, Chi-Rho graffiti, and a fish symbol-key markers of early Christian worship. These artifacts ...

After Jesus died, early Christians were hesitant to use the cross as a symbol. Since it was linked to criminals, it was something the Church did not embrace immediately. Instead, they used other signs ...