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This feast commemorates two events:
* The finding of the [[Cross]] by the Empress [[HelenaHelen]] (the mother of St. [[Constantine the Great]]) on [[Golgotha]], the place where [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] was crucified. When the true Cross was identified, it was lifted on high for all the people to see, who then continually sang ''Kyrie eleison'', a practice which is still enacted at current celebrations of this [[feast]].
* The recovery of the [[Cross]] on which [[Jesus Christ]] was crucified from the Persians. The Persians had captured it as a prize of war in Jerusalem, and it was recovered by the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire ("Byzantine Empire"). The cross was joyously held up for veneration by the Christian faithful upon its recovery.
