Today the church commemorates the day when St Helena
found the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Being the mother of Emperor
Constantine, who ended the persecutions in 313 AD, Helena was determined to find
the abandoned cross on which Jesus was crucified. The excavations actually
found three crosses buried in Jerusalem close to Mount Calvary. To verify which
was the actual cross of Christ, they asked a sick person to touch each cross. When he touched the third one, the person was
completely healed, and thereby they concluded which was Jesus's cross.
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| Cross in Nome di Maria church in Rome |
The Cross of Christ dominates our lives in many ways. So
many of us start meetings, classes, trips and gatherings with the sign of the
cross. Passing by a cemetery, you see hundreds of crosses lining up the entire
area. If you’re in Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC, the crosses number in
the thousands, remembering the veterans who dies in past wars. This feast is also called the Exaltation of the Cross, or the
Triumph of the Cross. We all have crosses to carry, but when we are given a
cross, we are also given the strength to carry them through our lives.
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