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Brewer's: Invention of the Cross
[discovery of the cross ]. A festival held on May 3rd, in commemoration of the “discovery of the cross” by the agents of St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Emperor (316). (Latin, invenio, to discover.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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