How did St Helen find the True Cross?
She was shown around the city by James, brother of Jesus, until she discovered the cross after it healed her daughter of some illness. She then converted to Christianity and had a church built on Golgotha. Aside from the Syriac tradition, the Protonike version was also cited by Armenian sources.
Helena, later known as Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, was credited after her death with having discovered the fragments of the Cross and the tomb in which Jesus was buried at Golgotha. Helena was born at Drepanum in Bithynia, later renamed after her Helenpolis, about the year 250.
Later, four cross particles were also microscopically examined – part of ten pieces of the true cross, accompanied by documentary proofs from Byzantine emperors. These fragments came from grand European churches: Santa Croce in Rome, Notre Dame in Paris, and the Cathedrals of Pisa and Florence.
The cross has been widely recognized as a symbol of Christianity from an early period. However, the use of the cross as a religious symbol predates Christianity; in the ancient times it was a pagan religious symbol throughout Europe and western Asia.
The relic of the True Cross was then restored to its place in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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Saint Veronica's Veil.
| Title: | Saint Veronica's Veil |
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| Geography: | Made in Italy, Europe |
- Shroud of Turin.
- Sudarium of Oviedo.
- Image of Edessa.
- Veil of Veronica.
He may have stood about 5-ft. -5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics, which were then stored in her palace's private chapel, where they can be still seen today. Her palace was later converted into the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.
Helena found the Holy Cross, on which Christ had been crucified. According to St. Ambrose, the author of the legend, the finding of the Holy Cross on its own had brought salvation to her son Constantine the Great.
What is Finding of the True Cross Ethiopia?
Meskel (Finding of the True Cross), is the celebration of the finding of remnants of the actual cross on which Jesus was crucified. The word “meskel” means “cross” in Amharic. According to Christian tradition, St. Eleni (Empress Helena) discovered the hiding place of three crosses used at the crucifixion of Jesus.
In the early 16th century, Ways of the Cross were established in Europe, and the tradition of 14 stations probably derived from the best known of them, that at Leuven (1505).
