The Feast commemorates the finding of the True Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Saint Helen, the mother of the Emperor Constantine. In the twentieth year of his reign (326), the Emperor ...

Offering no resistance, Jesus gives himself up to the execution of the sentence. He is to be spared nothing, and upon his shoulders falls the weight of the ignominious cross. But, through love ...

The bones included a heel which still had the nail embedded in it from where the man had been pinned to the cross. Not only ...

When Jesus was already crucified on the cross, one of the Roman soldiers placed a crown of thorns on him as a symbol of mockery of him, since many of his followers described him as the king of kings.

King Charles put a hallmark on the silver cross which will lead the coronation procession Fragments said to be from the cross on which Jesus was crucified will be included in a newly made Cross of ...