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- Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD
- On this day in 351, during the reign of Constantius, son of
Constantine the Great, the sign of the Cross appeared over Jerusalem.
Cyril, Patriarch of Jerusalem, wrote "At about the third hour of the day
[mid-morning] an enormous cross, formed of light, appeared in the
heaven above holy Golgotha and reaching to the holy Mount of Olives,
being seen not by one or two only, but manifest with perfect clarity to
the whole multitude of the city; not, as one might suppose, rushing
swiftly past in fancy, but seen openly above the earth many hours in
plain sight, and overcoming the beams of the sun with its dazzling
rays."
- Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303)
- He was an officer in the Roman army during the reign of the Emperor
Maximian, and a Christian from his childhood. Summoned before the
judges, he said that he had inherited a steadfast faith from his
parents, and that he would not waver in it, having seen his faith
confirmed many times in the miracles worked by the relics of the Saints.
He courageously endured torture in Pyrrinthus of Thrace, then was
taken to Byzantium where, after further cruel tortures, he was beheaded.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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