St. Helena Documentary Spotlight!
St. Helena Documentary Spotlight!
We start off with the trailer from Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates for the episode "Investigating where Jesus was Crucified." Then a trailer segment from CNN's "Finding Jesus" where Empress Helena discovers the 'True Cross.' And lastly, the main video is from Jan Kowalski "The Lives of the Saints" series about "St. Helen."
The Emperor Constantine seized power in the year 312, and in the following year, legalized Christianity with the Edict of Milan. About this time, Constantine’s mother, St. Helena, converted to Christianity. (She died in the year 330 at about the age of 80.) According to the early great Church historian Eusebius, she was about 63 at the time of her conversion. With the authority of her son, St. Helena went to Palestine in search of the sacred sites about the year 324. In the following years, St. Helena would build churches marking the place of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and the site of the Ascension.
About the year 326, the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus was demolished, and the workers began to excavate the area. They discovered the remains of the tomb that was reported to be that of our Lord Jesus. They built a new shrine over the tomb, which has been modified over the centuries, but today stands in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
The essence of the story follows: The three crosses and the titulus were removed from the cistern. A woman, dying from a terminal disease, was brought to the spot. She touched the crosses, one by one. After she touched the third cross, she was cured, thereby identifying the true cross.
The temple of Venus was also demolished, thereby exposing the site where Christ was crucified.
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You can read more about St. Helena here: https://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints?conte...
See the classic, epic movie "Constantine and the Cross" here • Constantine and the Cross (1962)
And learn more from our Quest for Prometheus show on "The Discovery & Elevation of the Holy Cross 09-14-326 AD & 03-21-630 AD" here • The Istanbul Pogroms & 3 other September E...
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