The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, 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 opulent mid-19th century Baroque cruciform altar reliquary monstrance of solid sterling silver housing relics from the wood from the True Cross of Jesus Christ. The relics are displayed in a round glass-fronted cavity located in the center of the monstrance. On the back, under a protective lid, the cavity is secured by a seal of red wax with a perfectly preserved imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Antonio Ligi-Bussi (†1862), the Titular Archbishop of Iconium (1851-1862) and from 1852, the Consultor of the Congregation for Indulgences and the Holy Relics. The reliquary is hallmarked by a French silver purity standard of 950/1000 and the maker's mark for a Paris silversmith Hippolyte Puche, active between 1847 and 1858. Suitable for public veneration.
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- ID#: 32-RSSR-16
- Size: 16 1/2 inches (41 cm) tall
- Age: ca. 1850s
- Origin: Paris, France
- Materials: silver, glass, silk
- Price: SOLD!
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