This is a brass
kiss reliquary with in the centre a copper theca with silver front, inside a
relic of the True Cross of our Lord Jesus. Relic in place and wax seal and
threads intact.Comes from a convent in Belgium.Measures 5,8 inch diameter
and 2,5 inch deep.Shipping and handling US$ 32.00 by insured priority mail and
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The Most
Holy Wood of the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ
According to several Church historians of the 4th and
5th century, the True Cross was discovered in 325 AD when Emperor Constantine
the Great ordered the removal of a pagan temple built by Hadrian over the site
of the Calvary and the Holy Sepulchre. Beneath the structure, in an old
cistern, three crosses, the title with the inscription "Jesus of Nazareth,
King of the Jews", and three nails were found. In the presence of the
Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, the Cross of Christ was identified by
the 'titulus' and the nail holes, and later confirmed by a miracle. It was laid
upon a sick woman who was immediately miraculously cured.
Helena divided the most precious wood into several
parts, leaving a fragment in Jerusalem, sending a second to her son in
Constantinople and taking a third to Rome. A part of it and half of the title
with the inscription I NAZARINUS R... is still preserved and venerated in the
Basilica di S. Croce, one of the seven main churches of the Eternal City. In
1998, a careful investigation was commissioned by the Holy See and seven
Israeli experts on the dating of inscriptions (comparative
palaeography) dated its letters into the 1st century, the time of Christ.
This suddenly gave the 'legend of the Finding of the Cross' a lot of
credibility.
Already in 349 AD, St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem,
stated that the True Cross "has been distributed, fragment by fragment,
from this spot (Jerusalem) and has already nearly filled the world",
confirming the early practise of distributing tiny particles of the Most Holy
Wood. When St. Paulinus of Nola sent one to a friend in ca. 401 AD, he wrote:
"Receive a great gift in a little case and take this segment as an
armament against the perils of the present and a pledge of everlasting
safety". He stressed that "even the smallest particle bears in it the
whole power of the Cross of Christ".
The claim of the "enlightened" sceptics,
that all relics of the True Cross would be sufficient to build a ship, was
proven wrong in 1870 by the French scholar Rohault de Fleury, who
mathematically calculated the volume of all relics of the True Cross in all
European Cathedrals and found them all together having the mass of only one
third of a Roman cross!