[Tallguy]

Wasn't the True Cross lost to Saladin at the Battle of the Horns of Hattin? Thought I read that somewhere...

[Bringbackthedraft]

"Wasn't the True Cross lost to Saladin at the Battle of the Horns of Hattin? Thought I read that somewhere.."

I believe it was a cross with a "piece" of the original attached to it.

[Andrew Byler]

The true cross was lost to the Persians, then regained by Emperor Heraclius. It was never lost to Saladin. And parts of it had already been spread about the world by the time of Heraclius.

As far as anyone knows, the various pieces of wood around the world purporting to be bits of the true cross are bits of the true cross.