You're listening to the SSPX Podcast.

We're happy to present another installment of true heroes, stories of the lives of the

saints, delivered by Father Thomas Tam.

Father has also put together a video of each of these episodes.

You can see the video at SSPX Podcast.com.

Now here's Father Tam.

But it behooves us to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom is our

salvation, life, and resurrection, by whom we are saved and delivered. St. Paul to the Galatians

Chapter 6. Hey, hey, welcome to true heroes, or rather a new section of our podcast that we will be calling

relics of Christendom. In this section, we will consider the different relics that we have

of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Saints. And this is what we will do

on Faria days like today.

We will start with the relics of our Lord that we may have or know the history of,

and then we will go to the Blessed Virgin and move on to the rest of the saints.

We do not know much of the relics obviously before the famous

occurrences with them, so for the most part we will focus on their main history during

and after those events. They will be most likely short videos, but we will at least get the general idea. Today we will consider the

history of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and see where when and how it was discovered

and where it went from there. Let us begin the story. So we all know the beginning. Around 33 AD, our Lord Jesus Christ

was crucified. We know nothing of this particular cross he was nailed to before it became his

cross, and this goes generally for the majority of his relics. After he was crucified and

buried, the cross was hidden along with the rest of the relics of the crucifixion, so that the

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