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This feast has now been removed from the General Roman Calendar , though it is still commemorated in some Catholic parishes.
According to the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, the Cross had been found by Seth, the son of Adam, in Eden; by King Solomon in Lebanon, and by the Queen of ShebaThe Queen of Sheba referred to in the Bible, the Quran, and Ethiopic history, was the ruler of Sheba, which modern archeology places in present-day Yemen. Biblical account According to the Bible, the (unnamed) queen of the land of Sheba heard of the great in the Temple of Solomon; and later by "the Jews" in a fish pond. The final discovery was by Saint Helena on the Mount of Calvary .
The story of Seth has various sources: the Gospel of Nicodemus and other apocrypha contain the story that Seth journeyed to Eden to obtain oil to soothe his dying father Adam. He was given a branch of the tree of mercy, and was told that on the day when this tree shall bear fruit, his father would be made whole. On returning home, he found his father dead, and planted the branch on his grave.
Solomon, in his turn, is said to have felled the tree for use in his Temple. There, the Queen of Sheba chanced upon it being used as a bridge but refused to walk upon it, saying that one day a man would hang upon it who would end the kingdom of the Jews. Solomon thereupon had it buried, and in that site a pond named Probatica arose. There it was found by "the Jews" and used to fashion the Cross.
After its use in the Crucifixion, the cross lay buried for two hundred years. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, journeyed to JerusalemCapitals in Asia For alternate uses see Jerusalem (disambiguation Jerusalem ( Modern Hebrew: Yerushalayim Biblical Hebrew: Arabic: al-Quds see also Names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christ and "called before her all the learned Jews of the land". She eventually imprisons one, named Judas, to whom God reveals the site where the Cross is buried: it is beneath a Temple of Venus, which Helena orders destroyed. In the ruins Judas discovers three crosses. A funeral passes by, and one by one, Judas has the crosses laid upon the body: at the touch of the True CrossAccording to Christian tradition, the True Cross is the cross upon which Jesus Christ was crucified. According to medieval legend, the True Cross was built from the Tree of Jesse (father of King David), which became identified with the Tree of Knowledge t, the dead man revives. Judas is converted to ChristianityChristian cross and its many variations are widely recognized as an ancient Christian symbol. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. Although Christians generally chara, becoming Cyriacus, and is made Bishop of Jerusalem. Helena transports part of the wood of the Cross, and its four nails to Constantine. Two of the nails are placed in Constantine's bridle; one in the statue of Constantine in Rome, and the fourth thrown in to the Adriatic SeaThe Adriatic Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula ( Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The western coast is Italian, while the e. It is declared that hencefoth the anniversary of the Invention of the Holy Cross should be celebrated.