THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE CROSS
Book IV.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE CROSS

But the Crusaders soon turned their eyes from the treasures which victory had bestowed upon them to admire a conquest much more precious in their estimation ; this was the true cross, which had been borne away from Jerusalem by Cosroes and brought back again by Heraclius. The Christians shut up in the city had concealed it from the Sacarens during the siege. The sight of it excited the most lively emotions in the pilgrims. "OF THIS THING," says an old chronicle, "THE CHRISTIANS WERE AS MUCH DELIGHTED AS IF THEY HAD SEEN THE BODY OF CHRIST HUNG THEREUPON." It was borne in triumph through the streets of Jerusalem, and then replaced in the church of the Resurrection. - Book IV

 

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