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True Cross
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True Cross

The instrument of Jesus' crucifixion, supposedly found by St Helena, the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, on the hill of Calvary 326.

She is reputed to have placed most of it in a church built on the site and to have taken the rest to Constantinople. During the Middle Ages, a large number of relics were claimed to be fragments of the True Cross and were preserved and exhibited in churches and cathedrals.
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