The feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (Santu Kruċ) is today being celebrated with solemnity by the collegiate basilica dedicated to St Helen in Birkirkara. Mass at Tal-Ħerba Sanctuary will ...

14 feast of the Exaltation of the Holy ... known as “Roodmas” — which commemorates the finding of the true cross in the Holy Land. Around the middle of the 1700s, the pastor said ...

Helena’s supposed “finding” of the cross itself was ... tattoos and clothing. The Feast of the Holy Cross focuses on the meaning of the cross as a powerful sign of divine love and salvation ...

Helena’s supposed “finding” of the cross itself was ... tattoos and clothing. The Feast of the Holy Cross focuses on the meaning of the cross as a powerful sign of divine love and salvation ...

devotees and the uninitiated both Christians and of other religions and creeds towards the Feast of the Holy Cross at the quaint little Chapel of Santa Cruz on Malim Hill, are the factors that ...

An associated tradition has been the tossing of a cross into the water to be retrieved by divers. The holy water from the church is given to the faithful to consume and to use in blessing their homes.

Today’s optional memorial is the feast of St. Paul of the Cross, the founder of the Passionists. Like these contemporary “holy fools” I know, he gave up a career as a soldier to care for an ...