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.
Large 18th-century Baroque reliquary monstrance made of bronze decorated with a crucifix finial and housing theca an with particles from the wood from the True Cross of Jesus Christ. The relics are displayed in a removable theca placed in the center of the reliquary inside of a glass-fronted round cavity. The theca is secured by an undisturbed seal of red Spanish wax with an imprint of 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. On the back, the opening displays an original Agnius Dei wax seal blessed by the Pope. Agnus Dei seals were made from a paschal candle and blessed by the Pope after the Agnus Dei prayer.
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- ID#: 46-RSSR-15
- Size: 19 1/2 inches (50 cm) tall
- Age: ca. 3rd quarter of the 18th century
- Origin: Vatican
- Materials: bronze, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: SOLD!
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