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3 unusual facts about Holy Cross


Holy Cross chapel, Mattancherry

The Portuguese established the Our Lady of Life Church in Mattancherry, which was a main centre of trade that time and a chapel devoted to the Holy Cross.

Stavrovouni Monastery

The most significant relic that Stavrovouni Monastery possesses is a piece of the Holy Cross, left at the monastery by Saint Helena.

The monastery is one of the only places where one can see a piece of the Holy Cross.


Andrew Hatch

In the first game of the season against Holy Cross, Hatch completed 20 of 25 passes for 276 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Bengal Bouts

The Bengal Bouts is an annual charity boxing tournament hosted by the Men's Boxing Club at the University of Notre Dame, with proceeds benefiting the Holy Cross Missions in Bangladesh.

Berlin Cathedral

On 7 April 1465 – at Frederick Irontooth's request – Pope Paul II attributed to St Erasmus Chapel a canon-law College named Stift zu Ehren Unserer Lieben Frauen, des heiligen Kreuzes, St. Petri und Pauli, St. Erasmi und St. Nicolai dedicated to Mary(am) of Nazareth, the Holy Cross, Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, Erasmus of Formiae, and Nicholas of Myra.

Frances Cress Welsing

She presents an extensive interpretation of broad categories of symbolic objects: guns and weapons, Christ and the Holy Cross, ball games, boxing, smoking objects, paper money and gold.

MacDermot Roe

Additionally, in 1385, the MacDermots Roe established the Dominican Priory of the Holy Cross at Cloonshanville, near modern day Frenchpark in County Roscommon.

Niedermunster Abbey, Alsace

Legend has it that, in 799 the future Charlemagne received a large number of relics from Fortunatus the patriarch of Jerusalem, including a fragment of the Holy Cross and the Holy Foreskin.

Oliwa Cathedral

The interior also holds Rococo chapels of the Holy Cross and St John of Nepomuk, an ambo, tombstones, epitaphs, the Pomeranian Dukes tomb, the Kos family tomb, bishop’s crypt, antique chandeliers, canopies, and many other antiquities, including a feretory of great cultural value, showing Our Lady of Oliwa with an Infant Jesus.

Ron Perry

Ron Perry (basketball, born 1958), former American college basketball and baseball player at Holy Cross

San Juan, Metro Manila

Later, the Dominicans constructed a convent and a stone church dedicated to the Holy Cross.

Tadeusz Żukotyński

In 1920 Sister Stanisia, a teacher at the Academy of Our Lady, was commissioned to restore some of the precious frescoes of Zukotynski at St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. Hyacinth Basilica and Holy Cross churches in Chicago.


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All Saints' Church, Misterton

The east window of the Holy Cross chapel was designed by John Piper and made by his glassmaker, Patrick Reyntiens.

Armenian Renaissance

In 1240 the first Armenian Church was erected at Rome, and 1434 the date of the founding of the Holy Cross at Venice, no fewer than eleven Armenian churches were built in Italy alone.

Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore

Other artworks include Polyptych of the Holy Cross Relic by Paolo Veneziano, a Virgin in Glory by Bartolomeo Cesi (late 16th century), and an early 15th-century late Gothic crucifix in the Malvezzi Chapel.

Bonpland, Corrientes

It was originally called Santa Ana, but on May 10, 1858, was renamed in honor of the French naturalist Aimé Bonpland whose body rests in a mausoleum in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross of Paso de los Libres.

Bruce Kozerski

On November 25, 2011, Kozerski, in his 8th year as head coach, led Holy Cross High School's (Covington, Kentucky) football team to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Division 2A, state football championship.

Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt

In 1862, Mother Hyacinth Scheininger, O.P., was sent from Holy Cross Convent in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn in order to teach German girls in Lower Manhattan.

Eastern Orthodox teaching regarding the Filioque

Joseph P. Farrell translator The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by St Photius Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press Language: English ISBN 978-0-916586-88-1

Eleftherios Foulidis

Since 1987, he has lived in London with his family and has been painting icons for churches of the Archdiocese of Great Britain such as: the church of St. John the Baptist in North London, the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Cross and St. Michael in Goldens Green, where he has decorated the church and he has painted the chapel of Saint Thecla.

Holy Cross Church, Gampaha

An Apostolic Blessing certificate was received from Pope John Paul II for the 75th anniversary of Holy Cross Church in 1991.

Holy Cross Church, Pavoor

The Holy Cross Church, Pavoor, Kasaragod district, Kerala is a Roman Catholic Church (Latin Rite) and the only place in the world where a range of Catholic Church Services are conducted in Tulu.

Holy Cross Convent School, Akola

Holy Cross Convent School is a private school affiliated to Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

Holy Cross Crusaders football

In 2009, Holy Cross had one of its best teams since the founding of the Patriot League, led by the team's star Quarterback Dominic Randolph.

Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball

Holy Cross could have joined the newly founded Big East Conference in 1980, but college President Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., vetoed the move for academic reasons.

Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church

Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church is a historic church at Third and Queen in Pe Ell, Washington.

Holy Week in Braga

The Holy Week in Braga is promoted by the Cathedral Chapter, in partnership with the brotherhoods of Mercy and of Holy Cross, and with the City Council of Braga, the Oporto and North of Portugal Tourism Organisation and the Commercial Association of Braga.

Holyrood, Southampton

Holyrood, an anglicisation of the Scots haly ruid (holy cross)

Hôpital Saint Joseph des Soeurs de la Croix

Hôpital Saint Joseph des Soeurs de la Croix or the Hospital of Saint Joseph of the Sisters of the Holy Cross is a private, non-profit medical institution in Dora, Lebanon.

Jacob Gretser

The second volume given fifty-seven Graeco-Latin eulogies of the Holy Cross by Greek writers, the third treats of cross-bearing coins, of the Crusades, adding also a defence of both the Crusades and the veneration of the Cross.

James Augustine Healy

With the help of John Bernard Fitzpatrick, the founder of the College of the Holy Cross, James entered a Sulpician seminary in Montreal.

John E. Brooks

A 2007 article in BusinessWeek suggested that "Brooks helped shape an exceptional group of overachievers", including Clarence Thomas and Edward P. Jones as chronicled in the 2012 book on the integration of Holy Cross, "Fraternity" by Diane Brady.

John J. Paris, S.J.

Before coming to the Boston College faculty, he held the positions of Professor of Religious Studies College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA from 1972-1990, then Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1982-1994, and then Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine (1985-1998).

Kreuzschule

In 1388 the church was reconsecrated as ecclesia sanctae crucis (Holy Cross Church) in recognition of its Reliquary, holding what was believed to be a piece of the True Cross.

Léonie Duquet

This was shortly after Astiz had led a police action at the Holy Cross Church in Buenos Aires against the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where he had arranged the arrest of Azucena Villaflor and two other of the 13 founders of the group, together with a total of ten associates.

Levi Silliman Ives

Having become deeply attracted to the Oxford Movement while studying Church history, Ives founded a religious community called the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina.

Makar of Pécs

The architecture of the altar dedicated to the Holy Cross in the cathedral has clear analogies in the contemporary architecture in Milan, Parma and Padova, while suggests the presence of stonemasons from Lombardy.

Margaret Cruwys

She died on 12 March 1968 at 31 St Peter Street, Tiverton, Devon, and was buried on 18 March 1968 at the Church of the Holy Cross, Cruwys Morchard, Devon.

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (born 28 December 1653; died at Rouen, 21 March 1735) was an English nun of the Poor Clares.

Michael McFarland

Michael C. McFarland (born 1948), president of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts

Nevesinje

This uprising is interesting because it was the first time that Orthodox Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks fought on the same side under the slogan: "For the holy cross and the faith of Muhammad" (Za krst časni i vjeru Muhamedovu).

Notre Dame, Indiana

The Holy Cross College campus is the location of the Provincial Offices of two provinces of the Congregation of Holy Cross: the Midwest Province of Brothers and the Indiana Province of Priests and Brothers.

Nowa Słupia

Every year, a festival called Dymarki Swietokrzyskie (Holy Cross Bloomeries) is organized here in mid-August, at an open air museum, Archeological - and Cultural Center.

Pace di Bartolo

About the year 1574 the following works by him existed at Forlì: The Holy Cross, a small picture in tempera, representing the Passion, and Four Scenes from the Life of the Virgin.

Prison de l'Abbaye

The abbaye dated to the earliest era of Paris, when Childebert I (on the site of a temple to Isis or Ceres according to legend) founded a monastery dedicated to the Holy Cross and to St Vincent of Saragossa, which later took the name of its administering bishop Germain of Paris.

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

Holy Cross Medical Center was founded in 1961 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Notre Dame, Indiana.

Ridgeway Benefice

The Ridgeway Benefice consists of the Wiltshire parishes of Holy Cross Chiseldon with Draycot Foliat, Ogbourne St Andrew, which also serves the hamlets of Ogbourne Maizey and Rockley, Ogbourne St George.

Saint George's College, Santiago

Its history is rich and is closely tied with the history of Chile, including the 1970s when the school was taken over by the military government and Holy Cross was ousted.

Santa Cruz de las Flores

Santa Cruz de las Flores is Spanish for "holy cross of the flowers"

St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge

Radegund was a 6th-century Frankish princess, who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers.

Sunnyvale, Auckland

Local State primary and secondary schools include Sunnyvale Primary School, Holy Cross, Massey High School, Henderson High School, Liston College, and St Dominic's College.

Terry Drainey

In 1991, upon leaving Africa, Drainey returned to the Salford diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft, Eccles in Salford, where he served for the next six years prior to being appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid in 1997.

Waltham Abbey Church

A legend, recorded in the 12th century De Inventione Sanctœ Crucis Nostrœ ("The Discovery of our Holy Cross") or "Waltham Chronicle", relates that, in about 1016, the blacksmith at another estate belonging to Tovi, at Montacute near Glastonbury, found a large black flint (or marble) crucifix buried at the top of a hill, after a dream.

William Judge

He served for two years at Holy Cross Mission, on the Yukon River, before being assigned to a smaller mission at Nulato, Alaska.

Yenki Abbey

Two of these monks were serving at the newly erected Holy Cross Monastery in Kouqian, a town in Yongji County, Jilin.

Zeme, Lombardy

Since the tenth century Zeme belonged to the Bishop of Pavia and later to the priory of the Holy Cross of Mortara; in 1311 one half of the territory was confirmed as belonging to the Count palatine of Lomello.