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The legend that two strangers would meet and one would use his walking stick to draw one half of a fish, and the other would finish it--that is a legend that doesn't have any history backing it up.
That the fish was used to decorate Christian meeting places, such as the tombs of the saints, and that it therefore made for a rather unassuming, non suspicious symbol--that does have historical merit.
But also, Christians weren't secretive about the fish symbol--Christians openly talked about it, such as the quote from Tertulllian I presented illustrates.
I hope you are not suggesting that the quote from Tertullian disagrees with history, because that is, quite literally, history. It is a primary written source from the relevant period of time, one can't get more historical than that.
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In the movie Polycarp, they use a fish symbol as a way for Christians to recognize or find one another. Granted this was a movie, but I believe this element of the film was based on historical fact. Anyways, great Christian movie whether or not you agree with me on the fish symbol issue or not.
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