The evolution of the so-called Jesus' sandals, initially conceived as a rudimentary type of footwear during the Roman era, acquired religious significance through their association with biblical figures, most notably Jesus Christ. Within the New Testament, sandals serve as symbols of humility, preparedness, and sacred interactions—evident in Jesus' directives to his disciples (Mark 6:9) and Moses' encounter with God (Acts 7:33) . Jesus' sandals are notably regarded as one of the most significant relics esteemed by the Catholic Church; originally bestowed upon Prüm Abbey by Pepin the Short, they have also come to symbolize, through biblical interpretation, a vital component of Christian identity, with humility acknowledged as a foundational principle. However, these symbolic intricacies are secondary phenomena that rely on the intrinsic dynamics associated with relics: specifically, their indexical nature. In contrast to images, which can be distinguished based on qualitative characteristics, relics exist as corporeal entities in precisely the same way as the body they signify. This framework situates the sandals at the core of the Christian semiosphere, functioning as an aesthetic norm for the interpretation of other interconnected texts, whether through indexicality, iconicity, or symbolicity. By the 1960s and 70s, the sandals became emblematic of countercultural movements, and most notably within the Hippie Community; later joining the domain of the consumer culture in an ironic twist, most remarkably at large retailers such as Walmart and online stores like the Holy Land Shop. In this context, the doxastic repository of humility serves as a mechanism for both validating and modifying established norms (Mukařovský; 1936), thereby fostering discourse surrounding emerging aesthetic frameworks associated with self-aware symbols of defiance.