2007-04-07 14:29:27 · 21 answers · asked by sometimes I'm too nice 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to history, Cathollic relics included enough fragments of Christ's cross to build a barn.
2007-04-07 14:39:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Muslim military leader Saladin claimed to own a piece of the cross plank during the Crusades. What happened to it, I have no idea. I believe that one movie with Orlando Bloom in it about the Crusades talks about it.
However, a true cross was not set up for the crucifixion, it was against an old olive tree outside of Jurasalem by the pit.
2007-04-07 14:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by Mike G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to legend, it was discovered in Palestine by St Helena (the mother of Constantine the Great). By the late middle ages, however, so many relics of the "true cross" were floating around Europe (and being bought and sold by rulers for astronomical sums) that Erasmus of Rotterdam joked that all the fragments put together would make a forest of crosses!
2007-04-07 14:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by completelysurroundedbyimbeciles 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The cross comes in two pieces. One is in the ground all the time.The other is tied or in Jesus Crucifixion,nailed to the second piece.This piece is raised up to the one in the ground by ropes and hooked.After the person dies it is taken down the same way and used again.
2007-04-07 14:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Jesus was hung in a tree....depiction made by the dream of Roman emperor Constantine that Jesus was crucified in a cross. That's spread through Roman Catholics worldwide.
2007-04-07 14:35:09 · answer #5 · answered by Harvard 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The thinking of the time was that such a powerful holy item would grant blessings and cure the sick, so it was cut up and given to people through the ages. I think there is a compartment in goblets for this holy artifact. (They also used bones of powerfully holy people.)
2007-04-07 14:39:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend that those of you who belive in the fabrication that it was a cross look up the word in your strong's concordances. There you will see clearly that a stauro is a piece of paling, or fencing, and that the primary meaning is such. Also, the word xylon, is most definitely a tree.
The term and usage of the cross image predates Jesus appearance upon the earth all the way back to Babylon.
See the book "The Two Babylons" by the late Rev, alexander Hislop. There you will discover that many of the images and doctrines so deeply embraced by Christendom originated in pagan religions.
2007-04-07 14:32:03 · answer #7 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
My guess, and it is only a guess, is that God made sure there was nothing left on this earth of Jesus's earthly life. He would have known that what ever people could keep would be worshipped by people.
2007-04-07 14:40:02 · answer #8 · answered by lightperson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are enough pieces of the cross to build Noah's ark. This was known in the middle ages, but people attributed the proliferation to some sort of miracle.
2007-04-07 14:34:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not after 2000 years, no.
2007-04-07 14:32:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋