[Destro]

The Quest for the True Cross by Carsten Peter Thiede, Matthew D'Ancona

SYNOPSIS: The Discovery Channel presents this documentary tracing the history of what supposedly happened to the cross that Jesus Christ himself was crucified on. This program is based on the New York Times best-selling book whose investigations could overturn long held beliefs about the survival of this historical and religious relic.

DAMNATIONIS TITULUS JESU CRUCIFIXI

[Destro]

My speculation was that the "Titulus Crucis" was placed in the tomb of Jesus when his body was interned and of course left there after the tomb went empty. The tomb was never used again. Hadrian built over the area thus preserving this relic.

What of the actual cross "timbers"? I think Carsten Thiede is correct in that those timbers found in Helena's excavation were probably the later construction's cross beams that looked like crucification crosses or to my thinking the crucification scaffolding that was knocked down and built over by Hadrian's builders. Being wooden crucification scaffolding, they probably were not the exact same wood beams used during Jesus' crucification - being replaced as a form of maintenance at the execution sight as the original crucification scaffold beams deteriorated through use and exposure to the elements.

[John Locke]

Carsten Pieter Thiede is a papyrologist, and he’s known for his claim to have found the earliest fragment of the Gospel of Matthew in the Bodleian Library.

It wasn't the Bodleian Library. It was the library of Magdalen College.

Sloppy, sloppy.

[Arguss]

He "discovered" the true Cross in a Rome Church that already claimed it was the true Cross?

"Next week we'll have a look at the Catholic Mass and why it's about to change."

I wonder what they mean by that? Ordo Simplex?