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No. If there ever was a cross of Jesus, it would have been reused to crucify others, until it was no longer possible to say which was which. And it would have been destroyed, or just rotted away, almost wo thousand years ago. Yet, there are some who say it has been found.

The first and most important "True Cross of Jesus" was allegedly found by Emperor Constantine's mother Helena on a pilgrimage to Palestine, where she found the cross of Jesus and those of the two robbers, all still intact, as well as uncovering the places of Jesus' birth, crucifixion and burial, and various other important relics. When Helena left Palestine, she took several pieces of wood from the True Cross.

The custody of the True Cross was entrusted to the bishop of Jerusalem, who gratified the devotion of the pilgrims by the gift of small pieces, which they enchased in gold or gems and carried away to their respective countries. As the commerce would soon have depleted what remained of the cross, it was found convenient to suppose that the marvelous wood possessed a secret power of vegetation, and that its substance, though continually diminished, remained entire and unimpaired.

By the end of the Middle Ages so many churches claimed to possess a piece of the True Cross, that John Calvin (Traité Des Reliques) said "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 Poictiers, and at Rome, where a good-sized crucifix is said to have been made of it."

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