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History, 300 years after the crucifixion of christ, helena, empress of rome, discovers the cross jesus died on. >> from the moment the cross is found, people become interested in having a piece of the wood itself because of its direct connection to the body of christ. >> legend says helena divides the cross into pieces. >> i imagine when helena broke up the cross, it was such a desire for her to take it with her, to be able to share this tangible representation of her savior, of her lord. >> sometime later, pieces of the

True cross. >> after her tour of the holy land, helena begins the long journey home. but did she do so, as legend says, with a piece of the cross that jesus died on. doctor george cozan heads in to date a relic to find out once and for all. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready,...

Jerusalem is now a very different place. >> the question is how could helena find it? it really takes us back to the year 135 a.d. when the emperor hadrean, builds a pagan temple over the site and ends up marking for all posterity the place of his death. >> the year before helena's son, the emperor constantine, ordered the temple be torn down. >> it wasn't his policy to destroy all of them, but that temple was the very antithesis of what christians or christ was about. >> the account of what happened next is recorded in a later church history. >> at some point, perhaps as early as the 360s, we...

>> her discovery will be hacked into tiny pieces and traded around the globe. venerated by millions, ridiculed by others. >> i don't think there is a snowball's chance in hell helena discovered the true cross. >> modern science sets out to answer the question, is the cross a hoax or a relic of relics? >> the true cross is one of the greatest mysteries in christian history. we have the tools to solve it. ♪ ♪

Describes helena's role in the finding of the true cross. >> which ha len a personally with her own bare hands, removes some of the earth and uncovers three wooden crosses together. >> what she came across was the relic. one could only imagine the emotions that welled up inside of her. ♪ ♪ >> the reality is that we don't know precisely what happened in jerusalem. and my own personal belief is