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THE APPARITION OF THE MOST HOLY CROSS OVER JERUSALEM ON MAY 7, 351

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1. St Cyril of Jerusalem writes:

"In these holy days of the Easter season, on May 7 at about the third hour, a huge cross made of light
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2. appeared in the sky above holy Golgotha extending as far as the holy Mount ofOlives. It was not revealed to one or two people alone, but it appeared unmistakably to everyone in the city. It was not as if one might conclude that one had suffered a momentary optical illusion;

3. it was visible to the human eye above the earth for several hours. The flashes it emitted outshone the rays of the sun, which would have outshone and obscured it themselves if it had not presented the watchers with a more powerful illumination than the sun.

4. It prompted the whole populace at once to run together into the holy church, overcome both with fear and joy at the divine vision. Young and old, men and women of every age, even young girls confinbed to their rooms at home, natives and foreigners, Christians and pagans

5. visiting from abroad, all together as if with a single voice raised a hymn of praise to God’s Only-begotten Son the wonder-worker. They had the evidence of their own senses that the

6. holy faith of #Christians is not based on the persuasive arguments of philosophy but on the revelation of the Spirit and power (I Corinthians 2:4); it is not proclaimed by mere human beings but testified from heaven by God himself." (Edward Yarnold, S.J. - Cyril of Jerusalem)