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The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Feast day: September 14

Chosroes, king of Persia, carried away the relic of the True Cross to Persia; but Heraclius, ascending the throne of Judea, defeated Chosroes and himself carried the holy Cross to the Basilica on Calvary A. D. 629.

Updated Wednesday, March 12, 2003