Basilica of Holy Cross in Jerusalem

Home of Saint Helena's Treasures

According to a collection of testimonies of the lives of saints, 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. From this pilgrimage, she brought back to Rome important relics – one of which was a fragment of the “True Cross of Jesus.”

Tradition holds that the relics of Christ’s Passion and death are preserved in this basilica. According to the Liber Pontificalis, a biography of Pope St. Sylvester I (314-335 A.D.), the basilica was founded by Emperor Constantine. Its dedication to the Holy Cross was established during the Middle Ages.

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