11 Facts About True Cross

True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus was said to have been crucified, particularly as an object of religious veneration.

The medieval legends that developed concerning the provenance of the True Cross differ between Catholic and Orthodox tradition, as do the exact dates of the religious festivals celebrating its rediscovery.

True Cross caused a lady of rank, who had been long suffering from disease, to be touched by each of the crosses, with earnest prayer, and thus discerned the virtue residing in that of the Saviour.

True Cross was shown around the city by James, brother of Jesus, until she discovered the cross after it healed her daughter of some illness.

True Cross then converted to Christianity and had a church built on Golgotha.

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Constantin Zuckerman going as far as to suggest that the True Cross was actually lost by the Persians and that the wood contained in the allegedly still sealed reliquary brought to Jerusalem by Heraclius in 629 was a fake.

In 1219 the True Cross was offered to the Knights Templar by Al-Kamil in exchange for lifting the siege of Damietta.

Currently the Greek Orthodox church presents a small True Cross relic shown in the Greek Treasury within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at the foot of Golgotha.

True Cross calculated: supposing the Cross to have been of pine-wood and giving it a weight of about seventy-five kilogrammes, we find the original volume of the cross to be 0.

The total known volume of known relics of the True Cross, according to his catalogue, amounts to approximately 0.

In February 2020, the Sevastopol district archpriest Sergiy Khalyuta said that a piece of the True Cross was bought by a donor, and will be placed on board the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, which has a chapel on board.