Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem
Piazza di S. Croce in Gerusalemme Roma Roma
Home of Saint Helena's Treasures
According to a collection of testimonies of the lives of saints, known as the "Golden Legend", St. Helena, in 326 A.D. made a journey destined to remain imprinted in history. She decided to travel to the Holy Land to visit the sites of Christ's Passion. And from this pilgrimage she brought back to Rome important relics; one of which was a fragment of the 'True Cross of Jesus'.
This church holds according to tradition the relics of Christ's passion and death. According to the book Liber Pontificalis, a biography of Pope St. Sylvester I (314-335 AD), it was founded by Emperor Constantine. It earned the dedication to the Holy Cross during the Middle Ages.
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