Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on August 18, 2022

The basilica was originally a chapel designed by St. Helena to hold the relics of the True Cross found on Calvary. The chapel had been part of an imperial palace Constantine gave to his mother when he moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople.

The church has undergone many changes over time. One of the relics on display in the basilicas relic chapel was rediscovered inside a wall during a restoration in the 15th century after it had likely been hidden there during an earlier renovation in the 1100s.

The Titulus Crucis, Title of the Cross in Latin, was the wooden tablet hung on Christs cross explaining the reason for his Crucifixion. In Greek, Latin, and Hebrew it says: Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews.

It is believed the Titulus Crucis was brought to the basilica in the sixth century. Other relics now on display were similarly not part of the relics tradition says St. Helena brought to Rome in the 4th century.

After her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, St. Helena brought fragments of the True Cross, the cross on which Jesus died.

More here:

The relics St. Helena brought to Rome from the Holy Land - The Catholic Telegraph

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