| 释义 |
> as lemmasreal Cross The identical cross is believed by large bodies of Christians to have been found buried in the ground, by Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 326; hence, the legend of its finding or invention, the adoration of the fragments of it, and stories of miracles wrought by it, play an important part in the religious literature of the Middle Ages. In this connection the word is often qualified as holy Cross, real Cross, true Cross, Saint Cross. Stations, way of the Cross: see station n., way n.1 and int.1 The antecedent history of this sense in English is found under the earlier name rood n.< |