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Gold Altar Reliquary True Cross From France Monastery
Beautiful old monastery workfrom an monastery in francehigh is 23 cmwidth is 8 cmtwo splinters of the true cross of our lord jesus christ. Ex ligno ss.
Mae cruics d. N. J. C. Crucis jesu christi. Of the wood of the most holy cross of our lord jesus christ. According. To several church historians of the 4th and 5th century, the true cross. Was discovered in 325 ad when emperor constantine the great ordered the. Removal of a pagan temple built by hadrian over the site of teh calvary. And the holy sepulchre.
Beneath teh structure, in an old cistern, three. Crosses, the title with the inscription jesus of nazareth, king of the. Jews, and three nails were found.
In the presence of the empress. Helena, omther of constantine, the cross of christ was identified by. The 'titulus' and the nail holes, and later confirmed by a miracle.
It. Was laid upon a sick woman who was immediately miraculously cured. Helena. Divided the most precious wood into several parts, leaving a fragment. In jerusalem, sending a second to her son in constantinople and taking. A third ot rome. A part of it and half of the title with the. Inscription i nazarinus r. Is still preserved and venerated in the basilica di s. Croce, one. Of the seven main churches of the eternal city. nI 1998, a careful. Investigation was commissioned by the holy see and seven israeli. Experts on the dating of inscriptions (comparative palaeography) dated. tIs letters into the 1st century, the time of christ. Thsi suddenly. Gave the 'legend of the finding of the cross' a lto of credibility. Already in 349 ad, st. Cyril, bishop of jerusalem, stated that the true cross has been. Distributed, fragment by fragment, from this spot (jerusalem) and has. Already nearly filled the world, confirming the early practise of. Distributing tiny particles of the most hoyl wood. When st. Paulinus of. Nola sent one to a friend in ca. 401 ad, he wrote recieve a great. Gift in a little case and take this segment as an armament aaginst the.Perils of the present and a pledge of everlasting safety. He stressed. Thta even the smallest particle bears in it the whole power of the. Cross of christ. The. Claim of the enlightened sceptics, that all relics of the true cross. Would be sufficient to build a ship, was proven wrong in 1870 by the. French scholar rohault de fleury, who mathematically calculated the. Volume of all relics of the true cross in all european cathedrals and found them all together having the mass of only one third of a roman cross! As.Per ebay's new rules, this item is allowed as it contains no human. Remains but objects of devotion the relic si of wood. Please note that. You bid on the precious antique reliquary, the relic is a gift to the.High bidder. Please cotnact me if you have any questions. |
