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Christ Crucified by Giotto, c. 1310. According to Christian tradition, the True Cross is the cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.. It is related by numerous historical accounts and legends that Helena, the mother of Roman emperor Constantine the Great, recovered the True Cross at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, when she travelled to the Holy Land in the years 326–328.
The church of the True Cross (Iglesia de la Vera Cruz) is a Roman Catholic church located in the San Marcos district of the city of Segovia, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, in Spain.
The belief in the Early Christian Church tradition regarding the True Cross is generally restricted to the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. The medieval legends of the True Cross provenance differ between Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition. These churches honour Helena as a saint, as does also the Anglican Communion. [7]
Saint Louis (King Louis IX) built Sainte-Chapelle in the 13th century to house the Holy Crown, a fragment of the True Cross and other relics he had acquired from Baldwin II of Constantinople. This made the chapel itself an immense reliquary , housing the crown, the True Cross fragment, relics of the Virgin Mary (in particular her milk), the ...
In 1601, during his first stay in Rome, Peter Paul Rubens was commissioned by Archduke Albert of Austria to paint his first altarpiece, St. Helena with the True Cross, for one of the side chapels. [4] Two of the side panels, St. Helena with the True Cross and The Mocking of Christ, are now in Grasse, France.
Caravaca is dominated by the medieval Santuario de la Vera Cruz (Shrine of the True Cross), a complex of several convents and a parish church that houses what are believed to be fragments of the True Cross. These relics are attributed miraculous properties, and celebrated with a feast day every 3 May.
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Exaltation of the Cross (390 x 747 cm). Constantine's Dream (329 x 190 cm) Emperor Constantine the Great, before the battle of Milvian Bridge, is awakened by an angel who shows him the cross in heaven. With the cross on his shield, he slew the enemy, and later converted to Christianity. Discovery and Proof of the True Cross (356 x 747 cm).