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St. Helena and the True Cross - Catholic Education Resource Center  He also cut away and leveled the hillside where Jesus tomb stood and built a ... About this time, Constantine's mother, St. Helena, converted to Christianity. ... Sepulcher is the Chapel of the Finding of the True Cross, marking the cistern. ... Most importantly, St. Ambrose preached that when St. Helena found the true cross,...
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Helena (empress) - Wikipedia  Helena, St. Helena, or St. Helen was a Greek native from the Greek city of Drepana () in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor. She became the consort of the future Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (reigned 293-306) and the mother of the future Emperor Constantine the Great (reigned 306-337). ... Saint Ambrose was the first to call her a stabularia, a term translated as...
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The True Cross by Ron Loeffler - The Cross - Photo  "Let us adore Christ our King, who hung upon the wood, and not the wood." ... Constantine sent his mother to the Holy Land, where she was to search out the cross upon .... Wherefore St. Ambrose, speaking on the veneration of the Cross, thought it .... Credits: Thanks to Chaplain (LTC) Robert M. Santry (United States Army...
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St. Helena, Discoverer of the True Cross (250-330) by A.R. Birley ...  St. Helena, Discoverer of the True Cross (250-330) by A.R. Birley. Helena, later known as Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, was credited after her death with having ... Jesus was buried at Golgotha. Helena was born at .... Referring to Theodosius' Christian predecessors, Ambrose of course gives...
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nov8THE LEGEND OF THE TRUE CROSS - Louisiana State ...  Agnolo Gaddi's Legend of the True Cross fresco cycle in the sanctuary of Santa Croce, .... on the two annual feast days celebrating the relic of Christ's crucifixion. .... Drijvers' book, Helena Augusta: the Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of .... Sources for those legends range from Ambrose's finding of the Holy.
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Redemptoris Mater (25 March 1987) | John Paul II  Mar 25, 1987 ... It is a universal plan, which concerns all men and women created in the image ...... What deep understanding existed between Jesus and his mother? ..... In their midst Mary was "devoted to prayer" as the "mother of Jesus" (cf. ..... The poetic genius of St. Ephrem the Syrian, called "the lyre of the Holy Spirit,"...
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Mary, mother of Jesus - Wikipedia  Mary also known by various titles, styles and honorifics, was a 1st-century Galilean Jewish ... In Christianity, Mary is commonly referred to as the Virgin Mary, ... Among her many other names and titles are the Blessed Virgin Mary (often ... the Theotokos (primarily in Eastern Christianity), Our Lady (Medieval Italian: Madonna),...
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Frances Xavier Cabrini - Wikipedia  Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C. also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American ... She was the first naturalized citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946. ... Long after her death, the Missionary Sisters would achieve Cabrini's goal of being missionaries to China.
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Mary of Magdala in Early Christian Coptic Literature - SBL Publications  It presents extensive dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, including Mary of Magdala. ... undermine appeal to Mary of Magdala as a warrant for women's leadership, ... In The Gospel of Mary, Mary Magdalene takes over the role of the Savior at ... For Mary is his sister and his mother and his companion" (GPhil 59:6-11).
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Veil of Veronica - EWTN.com  "Yes, I am firmly convinced of it, that this is the famous relic," he told reporters in a ... The Legend The story of Veronica and her veil does not, in fact, occur in the Bible, ... The legend holds that Jesus rewarded Veronica's charity in wiping the sweat ... These photographs have also been used to compare the veil with the face...
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Saint Monica - Wikipedia  Saint Monica (AD 322387), also known as Monica of Hippo, was an early Christian saint and the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo.
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Constantine the Great and his personal tragedies | Neo Byzantium  Jan 4, 2010 ... Around 305, Constantine was blessed with a capable firstborn son; ... He made sure that Crispus received his education from the learned Christian scholar Lactantius. ... All that is certain is that Constantine executed Crispus in 326, at the ... The Western Roman emperor Maximian married his youngest...
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Mother Cabrini: The First American Saint | Colorado Virtual Library  Jul 13, 2015 ... In 1889 Pope Leo XIII sent Cabrini to New York to help the many poor Italian immigrants there. She became a U.S. citizen and went on to found sixty-seven ... Mother Cabrini came to Colorado in 1902 to visit Italian immigrant mine ... CHNC She was canonized a saint in 1946 and is now known as the patron...
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Mary Magdalene: Author of the Fourth Gospel? - Tripod  Jul 13, 1998 ... The evidence supporting this thesis includes some of the Gnostic Christian writings of the Nag .... Jesus tells the Beloved Disciple to take care of his mother. ... Both men and women were known to be leaders and/or prophets in their communities. .... And the companion of the [Savior is] Mary Magdalene.
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The Secret History of Lucifer - Scribd  that the Magdalene and even Jesus himself were highly influenced by pagan ... questing without acknowledging any limits, ever pushing back the ..... given to him by his mother, the goddess Tiamat. ...... On the last day the two men spent a sleepless night ...... version of the fused Grail/Joseph of Arimathea tale and, on the
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Our Holy Mother Athanasia (860)  "Born on the island of Aegina of rich and eminent parents, she gave her goods to the poor and went ... Only at Christmas and Easter did she taste flesh and oil.
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True Cross - New World Encyclopedia  Dec 19, 2015 ... For over a millennium, these supposed fragments of the True Cross were ... In it he describes how Saint Helena, Constantine's aged mother, had .... with none of the controversy that had followed their discovery of the Holy ... Most of the very small relics of the True Cross in Europe came from Constantinople.
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St. George - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online  Both were Christians from noble families of the Anici and George, Georgios in the ... Saint George stands out among other saints and legends because he is ... Saint George is the patron saint of England and Catalonia and his cross can be...
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St. Peter - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online  Patron of fishermen, net makers, and ship builders. Death: 64 ... Peter, who was also known as Simon Peter of Cephas, is considered the first Pope. ... had humble beginnings and became one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. ... Peter was a native of Bethsaida, near Lake Tiberias and was the son of Jonah. ..... Advertisement...
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Helena (empress) - Wikipedia  Helena, St. Helena, or St. Helen was a Greek native from the Greek city of Drepana () .... In 326-28 Helena undertook a trip to the Holy Places in Palestine. ... Several relics purportedly discovered by Saint Helena are now in Cyprus, .... Helena Augusta: The Mother of Constantine the Great and her Finding of the True...
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St. Bernadette - Dictionnaires  On December 8, 1933, she was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church; her ... and died 1864 and a baby girl named Louise who died soon after her birth 1866). ... The Lourdes Commission which examined Bernadette after the visions also ... Four years earlier, Pope Pius IX had defined the dogma of the Immaculate...