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Sapphire Gems

by: padre art

While the fame of

Sapphire gems is held back from the spotlight by its fiery relative the Ruby, it is the Sapphire that is the most popular hued gemstone, for personal jewellery fashion, around the globe. Most of these Sapphire jewelry gift ideas are bought in the USA.

sapphire gems - sapphire jewellery - sapphire jewelry gift ideas - birthstones The Sapphire is considered the most sacred of gemstones. This gem endows its wearer with the power to influence spirits and understand the most obscure oracles.

Engrave it with the image of an astrolabe and mount the graven gem in talisman jewellery to give the wearer the power to divine the future.

Sapphire jewelry has an influence that is a powerful defense from envy or harm and attracts divine favor.

This includes the favor of Saturn which usually is considered to have a baleful effect without the influence of this sacred talisman gemstone.

By the 1100’s it is the most popular gemstone setting for ecclesiastic rings since the Sapphire represented the purity of the blue sky and fraud was banished from its presence.

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On May 28, 1198 a set of four symbolic gifts of jewellery were sent by Pope Innocent III to King Richard the Lion-Heart. The Pope explained the intended symbols invoked by the Sapphire, Garnet, Emerald and Topaz rings with a written message;

"The Celestial Purity of the Sapphire for how we should Hope."

To learn the intentions of the Pope regarding the Garnet, Emerald and Topaz as well as the symbolism of the shape of the ring itself visit Gemstones in Religion

sapphire jewelry - sapphire birthstones gift ideas - sapphire jewellery gifts Four centuries later, in 1495, Bartolomaeus assures us that the attributes of the Sapphire are still in the realm of the supernatural, not only do Cardinals and Bishops seek Sapphire jewellery but;

“Also, wytches love well this stone, for they wene they may werke certen wondres by vertue of this stone.”

Only seven years later Leonardi states;

“Engrave a Sapphire with a bearded man or the figure of a ram and anyone who wears this jewellery has the power to cure and preserve from infirmities and is free from the effects of poison and demons. It is a Royal image that confers dignities, honors and exalts the wearer.”

sapphire gems - sapphire jewellery gift ideas - sapphire birthstones jewelry The Blue Asteria or blue Star Sapphire has been considered a protective amulet that wards off the evil eye and the effects of witchcraft in general.

The renowned adventurer and explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton owned a large and beautiful specimen of the blue Asteria which he referred to as his ‘Talisman’. Just being allowed to view this gemstone was considered an honor.

In 1583, Ivan the Terrible described the blue corundum gem this way;

“The Saphier I greatlie delight in; yt preserves and increaseth courage, joies the hart, pleasinge to all the vitall sensis, precious and verie soveraigne to the eys, clears the sight, takes awaye bloudschott and streingthans the mussells and strings thereof.”

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