True Cross
Calvary's sacred timber
The True Cross is the actual wooden cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, according to Christian tradition.
Saint Helena, mother of Constantine, reportedly discovered it in Jerusalem around 326 AD.
Fragments claimed as relics of the True Cross spread throughout medieval Christendom, housed in churches and venerated by pilgrims.
The term now sometimes appears skeptically, since the accumulated "pieces" would far exceed any single cross.
Container for sacred remains
- fragmentIncomplete portion of whole
- splinterThin sharp fragment
- HelenaMontana's seat of government
- discoveryAct of finding something
Constantinople · veneration · pilgrimage · shrine · altar · cathedral · chapel · authenticity
Biblical execution hilltop
- CalvaryBiblical execution mount
- nailsMetal fasteners, finger coverings
- PassionPowerful consuming emotion
- JesusChristian faith's divine son
crown of thorns · INRI · scourging · Pontius Pilate · thieves · Gethsemane · Last Supper · Judas
Montana's seat of government
- ConstantineEmperor who embraced Christianity
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- PersiansPeople of ancient Iran
- SaladinTwelfth-century sultan, Jerusalem's captor
recovery · capture · dispersion · tradition · historiography · Byzantine · medieval · fragments
reliquary
Container for sacred remains
discovery · Constantinople · veneration · pilgrimage · shrine · altar · cathedral · chapel · authenticity · medieval
Golgotha
Biblical execution hilltop
- CalvaryBiblical execution mount
- nailsMetal fasteners, finger coverings
- PassionPowerful consuming emotion
Jesus · crown of thorns · INRI · scourging · Pontius Pilate · thieves · Gethsemane · Last Supper · Judas · betrayal
Helena
Montana's seat of government
- ConstantineEmperor who embraced Christianity
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
- PersiansPeople of ancient Iran
Saladin · recovery · capture · dispersion · tradition · historiography · Byzantine · medieval · fragments · authenticity
Resurrection
Rising from death
grace · Easter · Christology · suffering · death · victory · symbol · sacrament · faith · doctrine
- Christian LegendsHoly Grail, Shroud of Turin, Spear of Destiny, stigmata, incorruptibles
- relicsholy relics, bone, saints' relics, skull, tooth
- sacred objectsrelic, relics, reliquaries, reliquary, holy relic
- Crusade relicsholy relic, Holy Grail, reliquary
- sacred relicsArk of the Covenant, Holy Grail, Shroud of Turin, Spear of Destiny, Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Passion RelicsShroud of Turin, Spear of Destiny, nails, lance, sponge
True Crossforgery
Creating fraudulent imitations
fake · counterfeit · replica · hoax · imitation
True Crossthirty pieces of silver
Biblical betrayal payment
true, truly, truth, truths, truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untrue, truism