THE GREATEST RELIC OF THE TRUE CROSS The greatest Relic of the True Cross outside of Rome is preserved in the Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana, Cantabria, Spain . The tradition relates to the origin of the monastery, but it is more likely to be brought while the remains of Santo Toribio de Astorga (an Archdeacon of Tuy and an early Bishop of Astorga) around the eighth century. According to Father Sandoval, chronicler of the Benedictine order, this relic corresponds to the left arm of Holy Cross, St. Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine in the fourth century) left Jerusalem when he discovered the cross of Christ and the thieves . The wood is within a cross-shaped reliquary of gilded silver, with flordelisados ply, designed in Gothic tradition, on a 1679 workshop in Valladolid. Measurements are sacred wood of 635 mm. the vertical post and 393 mm. the bar, with a thickness of 40 mm., making it the largest preserved relic of the cross of Christ, outside of St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City which houses the very largest. A scientific analysis of the wood of this piece found that botanical species of wood is Sempervivens Cupressus L., being an extremely old wood and that nothing precludes the intended age range. Largest Piece of the Relic of the True Cross and the Relics of the Archdeacon Saint Toribio Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana Fraternidad Franciscana Monasterio de Sto. Toribio de Liébana 39589- Camaleño. CANTABRIA. Tel. 942 730550 942 730828 santotoribiodeliebana.org lcsantotoribio@terra
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:55:22 +0000
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