Constantine Desires to Find our Saviour’s Cross
Constantine’s heart, however, was too full of love for his new Lord to let him rest satisfied without some visible token of Christ’s sojourn on earth. He longed to have, to keep for his own, one thing at least which Jesus had touched during His life, and his thoughts turned chiefly to that Cross which had been to himself both the sign of triumph and the guide to the way of life. Thus he again called together his Christian teachers, and inquired more closely where Christ had suffered.
“In Judæa, outside the walls of Jerusalem, He died on the Cross,” they told him.
“Then there, near that city, so blest and so curst, we must seek His precious Cross,” cried Constantine.