Product Description
The Radiant Life Cross Pendant features a vibrant dark green enamel inlay (the photo shows blue, but it is a brilliant green) resting upon an elegant matte gold-plated bronze cross. This eye-catching necklace cross which is made in France measures 1 x .75 inches. Etched into the cross on the periphery of the green inlay are radiating lines, evoking the essence of God, divine power bringing overflowing life into being. An old favorite from our collection brought back by popular demand, this is Christian jewelry in its highest form: the cross is elegant yet understated, spiritually meaningful, and it conveys a spiritual message.
The Color Green: Life and Nature
This stunning pendant is an example of the power of understated symbolism in Christian art–without any ostentation, the artist uses simply the color green and radiating lines to elicit the life-giving power that emanates from God.
Green will always be associated with life, and with God, the author of all life and being. Hildegard von Bingen is one Doctor of the Church who focused especially on the aspect of God that can be contemplated through the window of the exuberant necessity of life. She went so far as to coin one term, veriditas, to reflect those aspects of the divine nature that are reflected in nature: fecundity, cycles of birth, and growth and fruitful change, overflowing goodness, and much more. She helps us see nature as a window onto the divine.
Celebrate life with this gorgeous, spiritually meaningful and elegant matte gold-plated pendant, one of our old favorites and a favorite of Catholic shops and those looking for Christian art and Christian gifts.
From Hildegard von Bingen
O Life-green finger of God,
in you God has placed a garden.
You reflect heaven’s eminent radiance
like a raised pillar.
You are glorious
as you perform God’s deeds.
O sublime mountains,
which can never be made low
by the discretion of God.
Yet still you stand at a distance,
as if in exile,
But there is no armed power
which can tear you away.
You are glorious
as you perform God’s deeds.
Glory to the One, the Body,
and to the Holy Spirit.
Glorious you are,
as you perform God’s deeds.
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