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September 14th, Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross “There is no abbey so poor as not to have a specimen. In some places there are large fragments, as at the Holy Chapel in Paris, at Poitiers, and at Rome, where a good-sized crucifix is said to have been made of it. In brief, if all the pieces that could be found were collected together, they would make a big ship-load. Yet the Gospel testifies that a single man was able to carry it.” John Clavin, Traité Des Reliques Protestants, rationalists, modernists, and other enemies of Christ and his Church...