Russian Crucifix
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Can someone help me, what does this mean, on my Crucifix/Cross?
My friend made a cross for me, and it says IC, XC on it, what do these standfor/mean? The cross looks like this:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hrmD9TVkkFc/TIhCyKd1tNI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/_E1Tfq-S9rA/s1600/orthodox_cross.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.xiongdudu.com/image/Russian_Orthodox_Cross&h=419&w=293&sz=19&tbnid=y3PYSyawYe5VZM:&tbnh=269&tbnw=188&prev=/images%3Fq%3DOrthodox%2BCross&zoom=1&q=Orthodox+Cross&hl=en&usg=__Prj990lKLwpreoSzUjcfa0sy1n4=&sa=X&ei=EvHVTM7wMIO8lQfoyeX9CA&ved=0CB8Q9QEwAA
Go to Yahoo Search and type in "Russian Orthodox Church 990" and Search.
The Church began in 990 A.D.
IC stands for 99 (= 100 - 1). -- Think of Roman numerals.
XC stands for 90 (= 100 - 10).
Maybe, they meant to put IX on the left instead of IC as that would
give a 9 on the left and a 90 on the right and look like 990.