The Feast of the Holy Cross, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, or Feast of the Cross commemorates the True Cross. On 13 September, 335, the Constantinian Basilica over the Holy Sepulchre was consecrated in Jerusalem. The day after the church's consecration, the relic of the cross was shown ("exalted") for the first time to the people for veneration. Later, the feast was also associated with the commemoration of the recovery of the Holy Cross by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius on 13 September 628.
Christian feast day: Feast of the Cross (Assyrian Church of the East)
On September 13, in the year 0, Christian feast day: Feast of the Cross (Assyrian Church of the East). This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of September 13, one of 462 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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