The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was celebrated on Sunday, a week after the main Feast at the Holy Monastery of the Holy Cross, which is located in new West Jerusalem, near the Jewish Knesset. This Monastery hosted the Higher Education Theological School of the Patriarchate from 1845 to 1909, with many distinguished writers, theologians and other scientists passing through its classrooms.
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross stems from an old Church tradition, holding that a three-composed wood from pine, cypress and cedar branches was planted there by Biblical Lot, and it was from this wood that the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ was made, and on which He was crucified.
