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The Sacristan of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican provided an authenticated relic of the Holy Cross, and the emblem of the Jerusalem Cross, or Crusader Cross, has been restored for the Abbey. [4] Two crosses were stolen, including the cross containing the relics of the true cross, in a robbery on the Abbey on 11 October 2011.
Sometimes, hagiographers would try to downplay the theft, but in general it was believed that a relic could not be stolen without the permission of the saint; a successful theft thus indicated saintly approval of the action. [3] Saints Marcellinus and Peter are a famous example. Saint Faith is another.
Further molestation controversy surfaced over a decade later. A civil lawsuit was filed against the diocese and the abbey in 2004 by a California man who, claiming a conscious recovery of his repressed memories, alleged that Chung had sexually molested him during his education as a 14-year-old schoolboy at Holy Cross Abbey in 1982. [6]
Holy Cross Abbey is a monastery of the Catholic Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO), popularly known as the Trappists. The monastery is located near Berryville in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia , United States.
The Abbey The parish, numbered 10, within the Archdiocese. Holy Cross Abbey was founded in 1180 by King Domnall Mór Ua Briain and was renovated and added to during the 15th century. It became a place of pilgrimage when a relic of the True Cross was presented to the Cistercian monks. The monastery was suppressed by King Henry VIII during the ...
Thieves have stolen a number of historic goblets and ornaments from the 12th Century Malmesbury Abbey.
Officials believe heavy winds last week damaged the cross on top of the former Abbey Grill steeple on Rock Street.
The Abbey of the Holy Cross was a French Benedictine nunnery founded in the 6th century. Destroyed during the French Revolution, a new monastery with the same name was built in a nearby location during the 19th century for a community of Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus.