"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 Poitiers, and at Rome, where a good-sized crucifix is said to have been made of it. In brief, if all the pieces that could be found were collected together, they would make a big ship-load. Yet the Gospel testifies that a single man was able to carry it."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
John Calvin, Traité Des Reliques, (1543), translated by Valerian Krasinski, (1870).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/True_Cross
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
True Cross
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by True Cross →
Related Quotes
"When the empress beheld the place where the Saviour suffered, she immediately ordered the idolatrous temple, which ha…"
"Then a chair is placed for the bishop in Golgotha behind the [liturgical] Cross, which is now standing; the bishop du…"
"Kings removing their diadems take up the cross, the symbol of their Saviour's death; on the purple, the cross; in the…"
"The wood of the cross would be lost to view, since no one undertook to preserve it, both because of the influence of …"
"When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are…"
"The next major figure in the Bible is Abraham, the spiritual ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Abraham has a…"
"For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness…"
"When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are…"
"Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; b…"
"Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could e…"