Exaltation of the Holy Cross
This feast's beginnings can be traced to the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335 built on Mount Calvary. The feast commemorates the finding of the True Cross of Jesus Christ by Saint Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine. The Emperor sent his mother to Jerusalem to find the Cross. Saint Helen, with the help of oral tradition, found the Cross and the crosses of the two thieves crucified with Christ. Helen could not determine which of the three crosses was the True Cross. A dying woman touched one of the crosses and was healed. This cross was determined to be the Cross of our Lord.