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Fragments of the True Cross
 
The Talpiot Tomb
Pieces of the wood from the cross of Jesus, first recovered by Constantine’s mother Helena and now scattered across Europe and Asia.
 
Bibliography
 
Baert, Barbara.  A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image, trans. Lee Preedy. Boston: Brill, 2004.
 
Bodden, Mary-Catherine, ed. and trans.  The Old English Finding of the True Cross.  Cambridge: Wolfeboro/D. S Brewer, 1987.
 
Drake, H. A.  "Eusebius on the True Cross."  Journal of Ecclesiastical History 36:1 (1985) 1-22.
 
Drijvers, Jan Willem.  Helena Augusta: The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of Her Finding of the True Cross, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 27. New York: E. J. Brill, 1992.
 
--------.  "Promoting Jerusalem: Cyril and the True Cross."  In Portraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient (ed. Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 137; Boston: E. J. Brill, 1999) 79-95.
 
Drijvers, Jan Willem, trans.  The Finding of the True Cross: The Judas Kyriakos Legend in Syriac: Introduction, Text and Translation, CSCO 565/CSCOSub 93. Louvain: Peeters, 1997.
 
 
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