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Feast of the Cross: What Does It Mean for Us?

Wednesday marked the Festival of the Cross. This festival commemorates the finding of the supposed True Cross by St Helena, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine. It also commemorates the founding of serval churches by Constantine, and the return of the supposed True Cross to Jerusalem by the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (Her-rack-le-us) after a Persian Emperor apparently nicked it in the 600s.