A Pendant of Bar Kochba Palm Tree coins, with a Diamond placed on the top, 14k. SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSS But the principal event of

But the principal event of the Feast of Lights – Christ’s Baptism – continued to be commemorated on the 6th of January

and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him

The Annunciation

Forty Days after Pascha (Easter) — the Ascension of Christ

A Pendant of Bar Kochba Palm Tree coins, with a Diamond placed on the top, 14k. SILVER & ENAMEL MOUNTED WOOD CROSS But the principal event ofSize: Diameter= 2 cm. Diameter= 0. 7 inch. Unlike the situation at the start of the First Revolt, in Bar Kochbas time, there was no Temple and no Temple Treasury. So, in order to mint their own coins as a sign of sovereignty, they gathered all of the bronze and silver foreign (Rome, Syria, Phoenicia, etc.) coins circulating in Judaea. Then they filed off the original designs and restamped them with Jewish symbols and Hebrew inscriptions relating to