reliquary relic Holy Wood of the True Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ

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reliquary relic Holy Wood of the True Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ:
$455.00

align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">This is a antiquesilver cross,inside a relic of the Most Holy Wood of theCross of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Relic in placeand wax seal and threads intact.Comes from a convent in Belgium.Measures2,2x1,6 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 22,00 by registered priority mail . With multipleitems, I will combine shipping. All my items are securely packet, to avoid allpossible damage. I prefure payment by Paypal . Please contact me if you have any questions.

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The Most Holy Wood of theCross of Our Lord JesusChrist

According to several Church historians of the 4th and 5th century, the TrueCross was discovered in 325 AD when Emperor Constantine the Great ordered theremoval of a pagan temple built by Hadrian over the site of the Calvary and theHoly Sepulchre. Beneath the structure, in an old cistern, three crosses, thetitle with the inscription \"Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews\", andthree nails were found. In the presence of the Empress Helena, mother ofConstantine, the Cross of Christ was identified by the \'titulus\' and the nailholes, and later confirmed by a miracle. It was laid upon a sick woman who wasimmediately miraculously cured.

Helena divided the most precious wood into several parts, leaving afragment in Jerusalem, sending a second to her son in Constantinople and takinga third to Rome. A part of it and half of the title with the inscription INAZARINUS R... is still preserved and venerated in the Basilica di S. Croce,one of the seven main churches of the Eternal City. In 1998, a carefulinvestigation was commissioned by the Holy See and seven Israeliexpertson the dating of inscriptions (comparativepalaeography)dated its letters into the 1st century, the time of Christ.This suddenly gave the \'legend of the Finding of the Cross\' a lot ofcredibility.

Already in 349 AD, St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, stated that the TrueCross \"has been distributed, fragment by fragment, from this spot(Jerusalem) and has already nearly filled the world\", confirming the earlypractise of distributing tiny particles of the Most Holy Wood. When St.Paulinus of Nola sent one to a friend in ca. 401 AD, he wrote: \"Receive agreat gift in a little case and take this segment as an armament against theperils of the present and a pledge of everlasting safety\". He stressedthat \"even the smallest particle bears in it the whole power of the Crossof Christ\".

The claim of the \"enlightened\" sceptics, that all relics of theTrue Cross would be sufficient to build a ship, was proven wrong in 1870 by theFrench scholar Rohault de Fleury, who mathematically calculated the volume ofall relics of the True Cross in all European Cathedrals and found them alltogether having the mass of only one third of a Roman cross!