The Sapphire

The Sapphire is the birthstone for the month of September.  It is an exquisite stone that can be in many different colors but is predominantly known for its rich, intense blue, which is the most valuable. Sapphires have for a long time represented truth, sincerity, and faithfulness.  They have the ability to detect purity and faith, which is why medieval-era church officials chose this stone to decorate rings and scepters

 The Ancient Persians believed that the earth was placed upon an enormous sapphire and that it's reflection colored the sky.  Archaic folklore claims that sapphires bring about spiritual enlightenment and inner peace upon the wearer and also serves as a protection from harm. If the wearer of a sapphire was faced with a grand obstacle the sapphire was to determine the correct decision the wearer should make.
Sapphires were thought to have great medicinal powers. There was a time where it was thought to remove all impurities and foreign matter from the eye. Sapphires were also powerful talisman and a guiding star for travelers of all kinds.

 Moses was given the ten commandments on tablets of sapphire, which made sapphire one of the most sacred gemstones.