{"product_id":"the-anchor","title":"The Anchor","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Hebrews 6:19\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen being a Christian could get you killed, the cross went underground and the anchor took its place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRome's early believers scratched anchors into the walls of the catacombs. An anchor was nothing — a sailor's mark, a merchant's mark, a shape nobody looked at twice in a port city. But the cross is already in it. The shank, the crossbar, the arms curving up. You could carve one in plain sight and only the people who knew would know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey have been counted by the hundreds in the burial tunnels under Rome, cut over the names of the dead before it was safe to cut anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEighteen hundred years later it still means the same two things at once, and a man wearing one still knows which he means.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one keeps the rope, wound at the crossbar and knotted the way it would be on a working boat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold fast.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolid .999 fine silver, hand poured\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e42mm tall × 29mm wide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-oxidized recesses, polished high points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4mm black braided leather cord, 22\", gunmetal magnetic barrel clasp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned Certificate of Authenticity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoured and finished in Northfield, Vermont\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorn for a lifetime. Passed to the next.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vancroft \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280371495133,"sku":"VC-CREED-ANCHOR-999","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3774\/7421\/files\/jesus_anchore_glass_product_photo.png?v=1785385830","url":"https:\/\/www.vancroftco.com\/products\/the-anchor","provider":"Vancroft\u0026Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}