The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross

The pagan Roman Emperors tried to obliterate the holy places where our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and rose from the dead, so that they would be forgotten. Emperor Hadrian (117-138) ordered that Golgotha and the Lord’s Sepulcher be buried, and that a temple in honour of the pagan “goddess” Venus and a statue of Jupiter be placed there…completed by clicking the following link: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/09/14/102610-the-universal-exaltation-of-the-precious-and-life-giving-cross