WOW! Did you know that a piece of Jesus Christ’s cross is in Hungary?

The church of a small village in North West Hungary can thank the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa that it became famous.

According to blikk.hu, 300 years after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, in 326, the Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great’s mother, Flavia Iulia Helena (later Saint Helena) travelled to the Holy Land to search for the relics of Jesus. Thanks to that (and the local Jewish community who kept the secret), she could not only find the crosses of the two criminals killed together with Jesus but also the cross of the Redeemer.

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Since the plate on which the inscription I.N.R.I. was written was found elsewhere, nobody knew which one belonged to Jesus. The bishop of Jerusalem, Macarius, proposed to bring them to a woman suffering from an incurable disease and she had to touch all three of them. Finally, she recovered, and they named the cross that she touched before her miraculous recovery to be Jesus’s.