On May 3 of each year, construction workers celebrate their day, but why celebrate it on Holy Cross Day?

What would the world be without the masons? Those people who, with their own hands, raise the constructions of the city and that is why they have a day in which we recognize their work.

The origin of the Day of the Holy Cross
On the other hand, according to the Catholic saints, May 3 is also the Day of the Holy Cross, because it was on that date, but in the year 326, that this relic was found that is sacred to the Catholic flock.

The finding of the relic is attributed to Helena, wife of the Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus and mother of the emperor Constantine.

The Empress Helena of Constantinople (250-329) converted to Christianity when her son Constantine already ruled the Eastern Roman Empire. Historians attribute to this woman that her son legalized Christianity in the Empire and then incited him to embrace this religion.

According to the legend, the empress traveled to Jerusalem to look for the cross where they had had Jesus Christ. To find it, he ordered to dig in the area where Monte Calvario was located, and on May 3 of the year 326 he found 3 crosses (other sources say that they were more like 3 pieces of wood).

After the discovery, the question remained: which of the three was the holy cross? To find out, he brought the three crosses to a dead man, who, the legend says, was resurrected when the third one approached him. Other versions of the legend say that it was rather a sick person who regained his health by coming into contact with the relic.

Excited, Helena made a procession through Jerusalem to show her discovery. That same day he instituted the feast of the Holy Cross. After his death, Helena was canonized.