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SUMMARY:Sunday 14th September\, 11:30am Eucharist for Holy Cross Day
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DESCRIPTION:In the Christian liturgical calendar\, there are several diffe
 rent celebrations of the Feast of the Cross used in the crucifixion of Chr
 ist. Unlike Good Friday\, which is dedicated to his passion and crucifixio
 n\, these feast days celebrate the cross itself\, as the sign of salvation
 .\n\nAlongside the Anglican name for the feast\, Holy Cross Day\, it is al
 so known as the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross\, the Triumph of
  the Cross\, Holy Rood Day\, or by the historical names Roodmas or Crouchm
 as.\n\nHoly Cross Day really commemorates three events:\n\n1. The apparent
  discovery of the True Cross. According to Christian tradition\, the True 
 Cross was discovered in AD326 by St Helena\, the mother of the Roman Emper
 or Constantine\, during a pilgrimage she made to Jerusalem.\n\n2. The dedi
 cation of churches on the site of the Holy Sepulchre and Mount Calvary. Th
 e Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built at the site of the discovery\, by
  order of St Helena and Constantine. It was dedicated nine years later\, a
 nd while one-third of the cross remained in Jerusalem\, the remaining thir
 ds were brought to Rome (and kept in the Sessorian Basilica Santa Croce) a
 nd Constantinople to make the city impregnable against attack.\n\n3. The r
 estoration of the True Cross to Jerusalem in AD 629 by the Byzantine emper
 or Heraclius\, after it had fallen into the hands of the Persian Emperor C
 hosroes II in the AD614 Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem.\n\nThe date of 14 
 September marks the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335.
  This was in fact a two-day festival\, and although the actual consecratio
 n of the church was on 13 September\, the cross itself was brought outside
  the church on 14 September so that the clergy and faithful could venerate
  it.
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