0066 - The Largest Piece of the True Cross Of Christ - Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou Mount Athos
The Largest Piece of the True Cross Of Christ - Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou Mount Athos In the Catholicon (Main Church) of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamou, 13 pieces of the True Cross of Jesus Christ are treasured, 4 large pieces in ancient reliquaries and 9 smaller pieces which are also housed in reliquaries with other Relics of Saints. It is quite likely that all of these pieces of The True Cross were originally one large and unique piece, most likely of the piece that was donated to the Monastery by the Eastern Roman Emperor (Byzantine) Romanos 1st Lekapinos. The First and largest of these pieces is considered to be the largest piece of the True Cross of Christ in the world, and at the lower section of it, one of the holes that was created by the nails that pierced Christ’s Holy Body can be seen. It has the shape of a Cross and is encased in a pure gold inner casing which has been designed in order to display the entire...