Antique silver reliquary relic True Cross Jesus

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Antique silver reliquary relic True Cross Jesus:
$425.00

style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\">This is a nice antiquesilver reliquary with relic of the True Cross of our Lord Jesus.Relic in placeand wax seal and threads intact.It has no back cover.Coming from a convent in Belgium.Measures 4x3,3 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 22.00 by registered prioritymail. All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage.

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The MostHoly Wood of theCross of Our Lord Jesus Christ

According toseveral Church historians of the 4th and 5th century, the True Cross wasdiscovered in 325 AD when Emperor Constantine the Great ordered the removal ofa pagan temple built by Hadrian over the site of the Calvary and the HolySepulchre. Beneath the structure, in an old cistern, three crosses, the titlewith the inscription \"Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews\", and threenails were found. In the presence of the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine,the Cross of Christ was identified by the \'titulus\' and the nail holes, andlater confirmed by a miracle. It was laid upon a sick woman who was immediatelymiraculously cured.

Helena divided themost precious wood into several parts, leaving a fragment in Jerusalem, sendinga second to her son in Constantinople and taking a third to Rome. A part of itand half of the title with the inscription I NAZARINUS R... is still preservedand 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 (comparative palaeography)datedits letters into the 1st century, the time of Christ. This suddenly gave the\'legend of the Finding of the Cross\' a lot of credibility.

Already in 349 AD,St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, stated that the True Cross \"has beendistributed, fragment by fragment, from this spot (Jerusalem) and has alreadynearly filled the world\", confirming the early practise of distributingtiny particles of the Most Holy Wood. When St. Paulinus of Nola sent one to afriend in ca. 401 AD, he wrote: \"Receive a great gift in a little case andtake this segment as an armament against the perils of the present and a pledgeof everlasting safety\". He stressed that \"even the smallest particlebears in it the whole power of the Cross of Christ\".

The claim of the\"enlightened\" sceptics, that all relics of the True Cross would besufficient to build a ship, was proven wrong in 1870 by the French scholarRohault de Fleury, who mathematically calculated the volume of all relics ofthe True Cross in all European Cathedrals and found them all together havingthe mass of only one third of a Roman cross!