What does the color blue mean in Christianity?

Answer 1

The color blue is used quite extensively in the Old Testament to describe the various hangings of objects in the holy places. It is also used as a symbol of wealth and the corruptions thereof, but it should be noted that purple is used far more frequently for such distinctions. In general blue should be viewed as a heavenly color.

Color Symbolism:

• heavenly - Exodus 24:10, Ezekiel 1:26; 10:1 (sapphire)
• holy service - Exodus 28:31, Esther 8:15
• chastening - Proverbs 20:30 (KJV)

Answer 2

There is no real symbolic meaning to the colour blue in Christianity. The nearest thing is that the Virgin Mary is often shown wearing blue. This started to happen in the Middle Ages when the Virgin Mary began to be revered within the Roman Catholic Church. When depicted in art, Mary was painted in blue because in those days the only blue pigment available was a gem stone called Ultramarine, that was powdered and mixed with a medium (like oil or egg yolk), which was (and still is) incredibly expensive as a blue paint. Thus, by painting Mary dressed in blue it symbolised her being very special. Nowdays, of course, blue pigments in paint are artificially made and cheap, so the symbolism is now not as valid.

To illustrate the cost of Ultramarine, in Wales where I come from, is a folk museum in which a church has recently been restored. At the east end is a highly decorated frieze, authentically painted in the original pigments that would have been used in the middle ages. Much of the frieze is covered in 24ct gold leaf. There is also just one patch af a few square inches showing Mary dressed in blue, painted in ultramarine. The curator there said that that small patch of blue cost more than all the other paint - and gold leaf - used in the frieze.

Answer 3

As far as I know the colour blue has no specific meaning in Christianity. However, in the middle ages, in art the Virgin Mary was often depicted wearing blue - the only character from The Bible to do so. This was because Romman Catholics revered Mary (and still do) above all saints and wished her image to be special. In those days artists' coloured pigments were limited to browns and yellows called ochres, obtained from different types of soils, and other colours such as black, white, red and green obtained from various minerals such as cinnabar (Mercury oxide) giving red and lead oxide producing white. In order to obtain blue, the only natural source was the precious stone ultramarine, which was ground down to a fine powder before adding to the medium - usually egg yolk. Ultramarine was far more expensive even than gold, and so in works of art Mary was depicted wearing blue to signify her being very special.

Answer 4

These are the lyrics to the song The Colours:

The fields are dressed in the spring.

In colors, in colors

Are the little birds that come from outside.

In colors, in colors

Is the rainbow that we see shining.

And that is why I love

The great loves of many colors

And that is why I love

The great loves of many colors.

In colors, in colors

Brilliant and delicate is dressed the dawn.

In colors, in colors

Are the thousand gleams the sun treasures.

In colors, in colors

Is dressed the diamond we see shining.

And that is why I love

The great loves of many colors.

And that is why I love

The great loves of many colors.

The rooster sings, the rooster sings

With a cock-a-doodle, cock-a-doodle-doo.

The hen, the hen

With a cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.

The chicks, the chicks

With a cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.

And that is why I love

The great loves of many colors.

And that is why I love

The great loves of many colors.

Joyous, joyous

Let us live in grace since we can.

Let us quench, let us quench

The burning thirst of the King who does not die.

Joyous, joyous

Let us bring to Christ a soul and thousand more.

Spreading the light that illuminates

The divine grace from the great ideal.

Spreading the light that illuminates

The divine grace from the great ideal.

Its a sort of folk song written in Spanish and used by the Cursillo movement.

Answer 5

http://sunburstjoy.blogspot.com/2009/02/blue-hue-of-creativity-red-for-detail.html