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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]
The brotherhood of the Cross has the mission of promoting the devotion to the Cross of Christ and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.To achieve this objective, the members of the brotherhood celebrate several ceremonies, processions and masses according to the liturgic calendar of the Roman Catholic Church and the Estatutos o constitutions of the own brotherhood.
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.
The Sacristan of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican provided an authenticated relic of the Holy Cross, and the emblem of the Jerusalem Cross, or Crusader Cross, has been restored for the Abbey. [4] Two crosses were stolen, including the cross containing the relics of the true cross, in a robbery on the Abbey on 11 October 2011.
The Discovery and Proof of the True Cross; The Battle of Heraclius and Khosrau; defeat and decapitation of the latter; The Restitution of the Cross; the return of the Cross to Jerusalem; The Prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah; On the walls of the chancel arch are frescoes which depict: an angel, Cupid, St. Louis, St. Peter, St. Augustine and St. Ambrose.