Giada Oricchio April 17, 2022
What secrets did the Russian cruiser Moskva bring? The legendary ship of Putin’s army sank last Thursday. According to the Russians, for a fire that broke out on board, according to the Ukrainians, thanks to a rocket launched from the mainland (with the hands of Americans or British). The number of casualties among crew members is uncertain. Now we wonder what the $750 million war giant had on board.
The news that among the weapons there were now nuclear warheads at the bottom of the Black Sea is not confirmed, while the Russian government agency Tass revealed that part of the “True Cross” was in the chapel of the flagship Christ. At the beginning of 2020, the year of the Covid pandemic,
The Russian Orthodox Church announced that the small sacred fragment was bought by an anonymous art patron for €40 million to donate to the Russian fleet based in Sevastopol. This is how the relic ended up on the Moskva.
It is a tiny piece of wood (a few millimeters in size) that formed the Savior’s gallows some 2,000 years ago. It was later embedded in a small 19thcentury metal cross. But was it possible that the precious “True Cross” on the Moskva River was real? Well, it can’t be ruled out.
The story goes that the very Christian Saint Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, at the age of 80, went to Jerusalem in about 330 to seek out the authentic signs of the faith, under miraculous circumstances that Saint Ambrose recounts at the end of the 4th century In the 19th century he found the “True Cross”, which he divided into three relics: the first was in Jerusalem, but was lost there by the Crusaders in 1187; the second at the new imperial court in Constantinople, where it was broken up into small fragments to be donated or sold, and the third in Rome, where it miraculously escaped the sack of 1527 and is still in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme is worshiped.
