The Triumph of the Cross of Christ: scaffold or salvation?

It is not the Cross, though venerable, that saves us, but Christ’s fidelity to his mission: to be the witness of God’s mercy that never fails, not even on the wood of torture.

This ancient feast (14 September) dates back to the time of the construction of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The bishop of the holy city had been able to meet the emperor Constantine (274-337 AD) and had illustrated to him the painful situation of the places where the Lord Jesus lived. The emperor Hadrian (76-138 AD), who for the second time had destroyed Jerusalem and asked for an anti-Roman revolt, had decided to erase all traces of Jesus. In Bethlehem he had the venerated grotto of the nativity covered and hidden with debris and had a temple to Adonis built on it.

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