The life-giving Cross of the Lord is called the cross on which Jesus was crucified. According to Christian legends, thanks to him many miracles were performed, among which were healing, resurrection, and victory over the infidels. Despite the fact that the Life-Giving Cross is one of the main Christian relics, the stories of its origin are described only in apocrypha.
In the canonical biblical texts, the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord is described as an initially simple object that does not have any special properties and is brought to the place of execution of Jesus already ready. Nevertheless, the apocryphal literature describes a variety of legends regarding the origin of this relic. A reliable story is unknown about this, so Christians still choose from the legends described those that they like most and bring them to explain the origin of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord.
As a rule, the legends about the appearance of one of the most important Christian relics are associated not with the New, but with the Old Testament. For example, there is a myth that during the Great Flood the tree that grew in Eden was carried away by raging waves, and subsequently Moses found it. He planted this tree of paradise, and many years later it was cut down and a cross was made from planks for Jesus.
There is another legend. It says that the tree in Eden had three trunks, one of which belonged to God, the other to Adam, and the third to Eve. They all grew together until the fall of people and their expulsion from paradise. After this event, only one trunk remained standing still, and the other two split and were carried away from paradise, like those to whom these trunks were dedicated. They found themselves in different places, and the water carried two parts of the tree of paradise around the world until the time came for the death of the Savior. And then they made planks of these trees, placed them on a cross and crucified Jesus to them.
There is another explanation, according to which Moses grew a tree for the Life-Creating Cross with his own hands. Legend has it that an angel, by the command of God, appeared to Moses and gave him branches of cypress, cedar and aloe, ordering them to be planted together in the ground. He complied with the order, and all three trees grew, interwoven with trunks and branches, and subsequently they were cut down to make a cross for the crucifix. Another legend says that the cross and the plate were not made of three trees, but of four - cedar, olive, palm and cypress.
