[agere_contra]

In 1870, a Frenchman named de Fleury went round the world and counted all the known pieces of the cross. He measured their size and published his findings in a book: Mémoire sur les Instruments de la Passion.

De Fleury rigorously concluded that if all the surviving relics of the True Cross were somehow reassembled there would be AT MOST enough wood to make 1/5 of a cross.

[Sopater]

However, at what point in history do you suppose that the followers of Christ started to seek out relics from the “True Cross”? Were crosses reused by the Roman gov’t? If not, were they stored with a name and date on them as to who was crucified and when? If not, was a running tally kept on the back?

I’m skeptical of claims that there are any actual relics of the True Cross. It doesn’t mean that I don’t believe that there was indeed a “True Cross”, in fact I’m absolutely convinced that there was.