At the central Vermont church I attend, in a stained-glass window that depicts the transfiguration, Moses has horns. When I researched why, here's what I learned.
A fragment on the True Cross on which Jesus was condemned to death / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Aug 18, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).On Aug. 18, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Helena. The mother of Constantine the Great, St. Helena, is believed to have restored many sites in the Holy Land, where she discovered the cross on which Christ died and other relics from his Passion, some of which she brought back with her to Rome.These relics can still be venerated today, in Rome s Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.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 basilica s relic chapel was rediscovered inside a wall during a restoration in the 15th century after it had li.
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