Virtually visit the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme: See relics of the Passion aleteia.org

Its ancient name was simply Hierusalem. The Basilica of “Holy Cross (Santa Croce) in Gerusalemme” (in Rome, not Jerusalem) is famous because it houses relics of the Passion of Christ, brought to Rome from the Holy Land in 326 by Empress Helena, mother of Constantine. It is said that she had filled a ship with earth from the holy places.

This soil was laid under the floor of the “Sessorian Palace,” which became the Chapel of St. Helena. It was holy ground, so much so that in the reconstruction of 1743 the floor of the chapel was not touched, and even today to access it you have to go down several steps.…

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