Marcus Minucius Felix snakker om Jesu kors slik vi kjenner det, og sammenligner det med objekter med en korsbjelke eller med en bedende mann med armene utstrakt(Octavius of Minucius Felix, chapter XXIX).
«At every forward step and movement, at every going in and out, when we put on our clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we sit at table, when we light the lamps, on couch, on seat, in all the ordinary actions of daily life, we trace upon the forehead the sign» (De Corona, chapter 3)
Stromata, book VI, chapter XI - «They say, then, that the character representing 300 is, as to shape, the type of the Lord's sign, and that the Iota and the Eta indicate the Saviour's name»
Hutado, Larry (2006). «The staurogram in early Christian manuscripts: the earliest visual reference to the crucified Jesus?». New Testament Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill. s. 207-26. ISBN978-90-04-14945-8.