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Why, in 326, St. Helena could
find the remains of the True Cross
Notes the author of The Relics of Christ’s Passion: “It was the custom of the Jews to burn the crosses used by the Romans for the execution of malefac¬tors, but the haste observed on this occasion to get everything out of sight before the feast of the Passover readily accounts for these three crosses being thrown into the city ditch, or a hole, and buried from view, instead of the longer task of burning.”
That preserved the actual crosses; memory of the events preserved their location. Disgusted with continued Christian veneration of the spot, in the year 136 the pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian erected on the crosses’ burial site a statue to Venus, hoping thereby to obliterate their memory.
It didn’t work, which is why, once the Empire became Christian, the Emperor’s mother Helena went right to that spot to seek – and to find still buried there in the dry earth – the woo
