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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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We had already seen a large piece of the true cross in a church in the Azores, but no nails.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Perhaps John used a piece of the true cross for a tooth-pick.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
She had come with her mother to the Sainte Chapelle to hear Mademoiselle Coupain play the organ and witness the extraordinary spectacle of the convulsionnaires, brought thither to be touched by the relic of the True Cross.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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