True Cross
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In Christian tradition, the True Cross is the original wooden cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
Christ Crucified by Giotto, c. 1310
The Queen of Sheba venerates the wood from which the Cross will be made (mid 15th-century fresco by Piero della Francesca in San Francesco, Arezzo).
The Finding of the True Cross, Agnolo Gaddi, Florence, 1380
The three crosses are discovered. An injured young man is healed by the True Cross. Fifteenth-century frescoes at the Church of San Francesco, Arezzo by Piero della Francesca.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is simultaneously the seat
The church in 2010, from left to right: the bell tower (12th century), rotunda (big dome), catholicon (smaller dome), and ambulatory
Crusader graffiti in the church: crosses engraved in the staircase leading down to the Chapel of Saint Helena
Eastern Orthodox icon (c. 1600) commemorating a church renovation
Floorplan in 1857