The finding of the Cross: a legacy of St. Helen. CMC on May 20, 2016 May 3 The Finding of the Holy Cross (326) When God restored peace to His Church by exalting Constantine the Great to the imperial …More
The finding of the Cross: a legacy of St. Helen.
CMC on May 20, 2016 May 3 The Finding of the Holy Cross (326)
When God restored peace to His Church by exalting Constantine the Great to the imperial throne, that pious prince, who had triumphed over his enemies by the miraculous power of the Cross of Christ, was very desirous of expressing his veneration for the holy places which had been honored and sanctified by the presence and sufferings of our blessed Redeemer on earth. He accordingly resolved to build a magnificent church in the city of Jerusalem.
Saint Helen, the Emperor's mother, desiring to visit the holy places there, made a journey into Palestine in 326, though she was at that time near eighty years of age. On her arrival at Jerusalem she was inspired with a great desire to find the identical cross on which Christ had suffered for our sins, in order to build the proposed church on the site of Calvary. But there was no mark or tradition, even among the Christians, to show where …More
CMC on May 20, 2016 May 3 The Finding of the Holy Cross (326)
When God restored peace to His Church by exalting Constantine the Great to the imperial throne, that pious prince, who had triumphed over his enemies by the miraculous power of the Cross of Christ, was very desirous of expressing his veneration for the holy places which had been honored and sanctified by the presence and sufferings of our blessed Redeemer on earth. He accordingly resolved to build a magnificent church in the city of Jerusalem.
Saint Helen, the Emperor's mother, desiring to visit the holy places there, made a journey into Palestine in 326, though she was at that time near eighty years of age. On her arrival at Jerusalem she was inspired with a great desire to find the identical cross on which Christ had suffered for our sins, in order to build the proposed church on the site of Calvary. But there was no mark or tradition, even among the Christians, to show where …More
The finding of the Cross: a legacy of St. Helen
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Our Lady of the Three Wheat Ears
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Adalsindis of Bèze
Adam of Cantalupo in Sabina
Ahmed the Calligrapher
Aldwine of Peartney
Alexander I, Pope
Alexander of Constantinople
Alexander of Foigny
Alexander Vincioli
Ansfrid of Utrecht
Antonina of Constantinople
Arnaldo de Rossinol
Avitus of Auxerre …More
James the Lesser (Feast)
Philip the Apostle (Feast)
Virgen de la Carrasca
Madonna della Croce, Pietranico
Our Lady of the Three Wheat Ears
—
Adalsindis of Bèze
Adam of Cantalupo in Sabina
Ahmed the Calligrapher
Aldwine of Peartney
Alexander I, Pope
Alexander of Constantinople
Alexander of Foigny
Alexander Vincioli
Ansfrid of Utrecht
Antonina of Constantinople
Arnaldo de Rossinol
Avitus of Auxerre
Cairpre of Maghbile
Clothach
Conleth of Kildare
Daircheall of Gleann-da-locha
Diodorus the Deacon
Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz
Emilia Bicchieri
Ethelwin of Lindsey
Eusebius of Auxerre
Fumac
Gabriel Gowdel
Giovanni Avogadro of Vercelli
Guglielmo of Florence
Juvenal of Narni
Maria Leonia Paradis
Nem of Drum Dallain
Peter of Argos
Philip of Zell
Ramon Oromí Sullà
Rhodopianus the Deacon
Roincenn Conlaedh
Sarnat
Scannal of Cell-Coleraine
Sostenaeus
Stanislas Kazimierczyk
Tommaso Acerbis
Uguccio
Viola of Verona
Zechariah
—
Martyrs of Antinoe
Maura
Timothy
Martyrs of Rome
Alexander
Eventius
Theodolus
—
Theodosius of Kiev
Philip the Apostle (Feast)
Virgen de la Carrasca
Madonna della Croce, Pietranico
Our Lady of the Three Wheat Ears
—
Adalsindis of Bèze
Adam of Cantalupo in Sabina
Ahmed the Calligrapher
Aldwine of Peartney
Alexander I, Pope
Alexander of Constantinople
Alexander of Foigny
Alexander Vincioli
Ansfrid of Utrecht
Antonina of Constantinople
Arnaldo de Rossinol
Avitus of Auxerre
Cairpre of Maghbile
Clothach
Conleth of Kildare
Daircheall of Gleann-da-locha
Diodorus the Deacon
Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz
Emilia Bicchieri
Ethelwin of Lindsey
Eusebius of Auxerre
Fumac
Gabriel Gowdel
Giovanni Avogadro of Vercelli
Guglielmo of Florence
Juvenal of Narni
Maria Leonia Paradis
Nem of Drum Dallain
Peter of Argos
Philip of Zell
Ramon Oromí Sullà
Rhodopianus the Deacon
Roincenn Conlaedh
Sarnat
Scannal of Cell-Coleraine
Sostenaeus
Stanislas Kazimierczyk
Tommaso Acerbis
Uguccio
Viola of Verona
Zechariah
—
Martyrs of Antinoe
Maura
Timothy
Martyrs of Rome
Alexander
Eventius
Theodolus
—
Theodosius of Kiev