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Invention of the Cross [discovery of the cross]

A festival held on May 3rd, in commemoration of the “discovery of the cross” by the agents of St. Helʹena, mother of Constantine the Emperor (316). (Latin, invenʹio, to discover.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.