06-14-2016, 09:23 AM
(06-13-2016, 12:47 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Did a little research on "True Cross." In all of the accounts of its supposed powers, there was nothing that suggested that only good people could use it or be healed by it. In fact, except for the earliest account of the emperor Constantine's mother placing a sick woman on it and her healing and accounts of the faithful making pilgrimages to the various bits of wood that have been claimed as fragments of the cross, there don't seem to be any documented cases of anyone actually being healed.
So yeah, a stick that consistently heals anyone it touches would run counter to accounts of the TC, if only because it actually seems to work.
I did some research as well, FaceInTheCrowd, and came to the same conclusion. I also questioned the statement about the woman who was healed by the cross and wondered if this event was somehow faked. She's the emperor's mother, charged with seeking out holy relics. If she comes back empty handed, how does that work for her? I also read the spikes were brought back and melted into a helmet for Constantine. Obviously that had no miraculous properties either.
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