[muir_redwoods]

It’s a big mistake to underestimate the extent of human folly. I’d easily believe several whole crosses were sold and thousands of fragments sold, resold, donated to kings to curry favor etc. A fool who parted with his money stupidly may try to discreetly dispose of the evidence.

[agere_contra]

Yes - but history as a rigorous discipline doesn't work like that. It works on primary documents and evidence from which inferences are then made.

Whatever we might or might not 'easily believe' - the only data points that we actually have are that the known splinters of the true cross would easily fit into a shoebox

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