{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-tiny-textured-cross-bead","title":"Vintage Bronze Tiny Textured Cross Bead","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Vintage Bronze Tiny Textured Cross Bead is a Latin cross small enough to live among rosary beads, its arms swelling softly and flaring at the ends. A smooth raised border follows the outline the whole way round a finely pebbled field, so the little cross reads as a bright frame around a matte centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no corpus and no lettering, and that plainness carries its own meaning. The bare cross is the cross of Easter morning, empty because the work is finished, and Christians have carried it in that form since the earliest centuries. A cross this size is the one to reach for where a full crucifix would be too much weight for the piece it belongs to, whether that is a rosary, a set of decade beads or a strand kept in a pocket and told by touch. Because each one is finished by hand, the pebbling and the arms vary a little from piece to piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tiny textured cross was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the piece's vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtisan-cast from an antique original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Equatoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48943555608761,"sku":"3c3-1467-B","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-1467-B.png?v=1787688750","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/vintage-bronze-tiny-textured-cross-bead","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}