The True Cross is the name for physical remnants that, by the Church tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Empress Helena, the mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, traveled to the Holy Land in 326–28, where she discovered the hiding place of three crosses that were believed to be used at the crucifixion of Jesus and of two thieves, St. Dismas and Gestas, executed with him, and a miracle revealed which of the three was the True Cross. Fragments of the Cross were broken up, and the pieces were widely distributed; in 348, in one of his Catecheses, Cyril of Jerusalem remarked that the "whole earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ." Most of the very small relics of the True Cross in Europe came from Constantinople after the city was captured and sacked in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. They were carved up by the present bishops and divided with other very precious relics among the knights, who, after their return to the homeland, donated them to churches and monasteries.
An impressive gilt silver cruciform pendant reliquary housing extremely large relics of the Wood from the True Cross of Jesus Christ. The unusually sizable relics are housed inside the pendant cross of intricate silver filigree and identified on a manuscript cedula label as De Lingo [SS] Crucis D.N.J.C. (of the wood from the Most Holy Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ). The reliquary is secured by a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint with a coat of arms of Bishop Nicola Angelo Maria Landini, O.E.S.A. (†1782), Titular Bishop of Porphyreon and Vicar General of the Vatican Curia (1764-1782).
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- ID#: 318-RSCR-12
- Size: 110 x 85 mm (4 x 3 1/2 inches)
- Age: ca. third quarter of the 18th century
- Origin: Vatican
- Materials: silver, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: (RESERVED)
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