"The wood of the cross would be lost to view, since no one undertook to preserve it, both because of the influence of fear and because the faithful were then busily engaged with other pressing matters. But at a later date it would be sought for, and it is likely that the three crosses would be lying together. Hence, provision was being made that the one belonging to the Lord might not go unrecognized: first, because of the fact that it was lying in the middle; and second, it was clearly evident to all because of the label, since the crosses of the thieves had no superscription."
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John Chrysostom, In Iohannem, Homily 85, pp, 59, 461; translation Th. A Goggin, The Fathers of the Church, pp. 41, 430; as quoted in Helena Augusta: The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of Her Finding of the True Cross, by Jan Willem Drijvers, (1992), p.95.
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