What is "chrismon"

Chrismon is a German Lutheran magazine appearing monthly as a supplement to the weekly journal Die Zeit and the daily newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Tagesspiegel and Sächsische Zeitung. About 1.5 million copies are distributed monthly. It was founded in 2002 under the Name "Chrisma" and arose from the Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt.

Publishers are the Reverend Cornelia Coenen-Marx, the Regional Bishop Johannes Friedrich, Hermann Gröhe MP ( CDU) and the Bishop Wolfgang Huber. Johannes Friedrich also edits the magazine.

Chrismon may refer to:

• the Chi Rho monogram
• more generally, any Christogram
• in specialised scholarly usage (adopted from German), a type of early medieval signum manus
• a type of Christmas decoration, see Chrismon tree