Category:Holy Cross (subject)

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The Holy Cross is the cross used for the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Overview

According to a wide-spread narrative, Helena, the mother of Constantine, in 325 CE discovered three crosses buried near the Golgotha. The True Cross was identified as an ill person recovered at the touch of it. Along the cross, Helena found the Holy Nails and the Titulus Crucis. All these relics (with the exception of the Holy Nails that Helena brought to Italy) were displayed to the faithful in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem until the Persian invasion in 615 CE.

Fro this point on, the story of the Cross is a complicated story of continuous losses and rediscoveries

In Depth

• Holy Cross (sources) -- survey of ancient sources

• Holy Cross (arts) -- survey of fictional works

• Holy Cross (research) -- survey of scholarly works

External links

• Wikipedia