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87-553: The Drukken , Drucken Steps or Drunken Steps were stepping stones across the Red Burn in Irvine , North Ayrshire, Scotland and are associated with Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns . Drukken is used on the commemorative cairn plaque, but Druken or Drucken may also be used. The Drukken, or in English, the 'Drunken Steps' in the old Eglinton Woods near Stanecastle at NS 329 404, were

174-642: A Sunday we spent together in Eglinton Woods? R.B." 30 December 1787. Irvine Burns Club, 25 January 1927. The upper inscription (1976) reads: This cairn was erected for Irvine Burns Club to mark their 150th anniversary and to re-locate the plaque originally placed at the Drukken Steps (Drunken) / Saint Bride's Well. 700 yards north west of this spot by W & C French (Construction) Ltd, builders of Irvine by-pass, January 1976. The 'Steps Road' in Irvine commemorates

261-430: A Sunday we spent together in Eglinton Woods? You told me, on my repeating some verses to you that you wondered I could resist the temptation of sending verses of such merit to a magazine. Burns wrote the following to Brown, Twas actually this that gave me an idea of my own pieces which encouraged me to endeavour at the character of a Poet . Higgens House existed as far back as 1761 and would have been familiar to users of

348-401: A deacon stands holding the ring of Solomon and the horn from which the kings were anointed; they kiss the horn also and gaze at the ring... Before long, but perhaps not until after the visit of Egeria, it was possible also to venerate the crown of thorns , the pillar at which Christ was scourged, and the lance that pierced his side. The Sassanid Emperor Khosrau II ("Chosroes") removed

435-456: A description of the discovery later repeated by Sozomen and Theodoret . Socrates' account is very similar to Rufinus'. In it he describes how Helena Augusta , Constantine's aged mother, had the pagan temple destroyed and the Sepulchre uncovered, whereupon three crosses, the titulus , and the nails from Jesus's crucifixion were uncovered as well. In Socrates's version of the story, Macarius had

522-452: A favourite haunt of Burns and his friend Richard Brown whilst the two were in Irvine in 1781 – 82. A commemorative cairn off Bank Street at MacKinnon Terrace in Irvine, next to the expressway, stands several hundred yards from the site of the Drukken stepping stones across the Red Burn, also said to be the site of Saint Bryde's, Brides or Bridget's well. Until 2009 it was generally thought that

609-497: A new pagan city, Aelia Capitolina , after 130, following the destruction of the formerly Jewish city at the end of the Jewish Revolt in the year 70, and in connection with Bar Kokhba's revolt of 132–135. Following his conversion to Christianity, Emperor Constantine ordered in about 325–326 that the site be uncovered and instructed Macarius , Bishop of Jerusalem, to build a church on the site. Eusebius' work contains details about

696-887: A number of Protestant denominations, celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 14, the anniversary of the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . In later centuries, these celebrations also included commemoration of the rescue of the True Cross from the Persians in 628. In the Galician usage, beginning about the seventh century, the Feast of the Cross was celebrated on May 3. According to

783-461: Is also said to hold the largest of these pieces and is one of the most visited Roman Catholic pilgrimage sites. In Asia, the only place where the other part of the True Cross is located is in the Monasterio de Tarlac at San Jose, Tarlac , Philippines . The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church also claims to have the right wing of the true cross buried in the monastery of Gishen Mariam. This piece

870-455: Is featured in the 2021 South Korean series Squid Game as the fifth game played in the series. True Cross The True Cross is said to be the real cross that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on, according to Christian tradition. It is related by numerous historical accounts and legends that Helena , the mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great , recovered the True Cross at

957-609: Is mentioned in 1417, however this seems to have been secularised by the early 17th century. A secondary source makes reference to a chapel at the site of the Hill Cottage and it is indicated that the well at this site produced an abundance of water. A Cruceford or Crossford was also located further down the Redburn on the Knights Templar lands of Redburn where the burn now crosses under the main road near Kidsneuk and Rood meadow. Roodmeadow

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1044-500: Is otherwise unaccounted. Four cross particles – of ten particles with surviving documentary provenances by Byzantine emperors – from European churches, i.e. Santa Croce in Rome, Caravaca de la Cruz , Notre Dame , Paris, Pisa Cathedral and Florence Cathedral , were microscopically examined. "The pieces came all together from olive." It is possible that many alleged pieces of the True Cross are forgeries , created by travelling merchants in

1131-690: Is the earliest and main historical source on the rediscovery of the Tomb of Jesus and the construction of the first church at the site, but does not mention anything concerning the True Cross. Eusebius describes how the site of the Holy Sepulchre , once a site of veneration for the early Christian Church in Jerusalem , had been covered over with earth and a temple of Venus had been built on top. Although Eusebius does not say as much, this would probably have been done as part of Hadrian 's reconstruction of Jerusalem as

1218-760: The Catholic Encyclopedia , when the Galician and Roman practices were combined, the September date, for which the Vatican adopted the official name "Triumph of the Cross" in 1963, was used to commemorate the rescue from the Persians and the May date was kept as the "Invention of the True Cross" to commemorate the finding. The September date is often referred to in the West as Holy Cross Day ;

1305-571: The Annick Water . The commemorative cairn carries the re-located 1927 plaque that was attached to the now demolished estate boundary wall. The Drukken Steps / Saint Bride's Well site still exists, much altered. The 1966 1:2500 map shows the Drukken Steps in a position that still exists as a small wooden bridge and this has confirmed by several local people who knew the old ford when the stepping stones and boundary wall were still in existence. The reference to Saint Bride's Well at Stanecastle may reflect

1392-592: The Battle of Hattin in 1187. While some Christian rulers like Richard the Lionheart of England , the Byzantine emperor Isaac   II , and Queen Tamar of Georgia sought to ransom it from Saladin, the cross was not returned. In 1219 the True Cross was offered to the Knights Templar by Al-Kamil in exchange for lifting the siege of Damietta . The cross was never delivered as Al-Kamil did not, in fact, have it. Subsequently

1479-518: The Church of San Francesco in Arezzo between 1452 and 1466, faithfully reproducing the episodes of The Golden Legend . According to the sacred tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church the True Cross was made from three different types of wood: cedar , pine and cypress . This is an allusion to Isaiah 60:13 : "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and

1566-522: The Church of the East all claim to possess relics of the True Cross as objects of veneration . Historians generally dispute the authenticity of the relics, as do Protestant and other Christian churches, who do not hold them in high regard. In the Latin-speaking traditions of Western Europe, the story of the pre-Christian origins of the True Cross was well established by the 13th century when, in 1260, it

1653-457: The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem , when she travelled to the Holy Land in the years 326–328. The late 4th-century historians Gelasius of Caesarea and Tyrannius Rufinus wrote that while she was there, she discovered the hiding place of three crosses that were believed to have been used at the crucifixion of Jesus and the two thieves, Dismas and Gestas , who were executed with him. To one cross

1740-563: The Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance , there was wide general acceptance of the account of the cross's history as presented by Voragine. This general acceptance is displayed in numerous artworks on the subject, culminating in one of the most famous fresco cycles of the Renaissance, the Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca , which he painted on the walls of the chancel of

1827-614: The Sevastopol district archpriest Sergiy Khalyuta said that a piece of the True Cross was bought by a donor, and was to be placed on board the Russian missile cruiser Moskva , which has a chapel on board. The ship sank in April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine . After the sinking, there was speculation that the fragment may have gone down with the ship. John Chrysostom wrote homilies on

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1914-606: The Syriac tradition replaced Helena with a fictitious first-century empress named Protonike, who is said to be the wife of emperor Claudius . This story, which originated in Edessa in the 430s, was transmitted in the so-called Doctrina Addai , which was believed to be written by Thaddeus of Edessa (Addai in Syriac texts), one of the seventy disciples. The narrative retrojected the Helena version to

2001-560: The aquatic animals and plants around or in the pond, like carp , turtles , and waterfowl . Today, stepping stones are commonly used by mountaineers and hikers as a makeshift way of crossing uncharted or unanticipated streams and torrents. They may occur alongside a ford . The Drukken Steps in the Eglinton Woods of North Ayrshire in Scotland were a favourite haunt of poet Robert Burns and his companion Richard Brown, while

2088-499: The 'Hygenhouse' of 1774, now demolished. The name may be a personal name or may relate to the Scots word for a fence or hedge as the building lay close to the boundary of the estate. 55°37.902′N 004°39.355′W  /  55.631700°N 4.655917°W  / 55.631700; -4.655917 The Eglinton estate wall used to cut across the burn and join up with the perimeter wall of the cemetery. The remains of this wall can still be seen at

2175-417: The 15th-century Book of Ṭeff Grains , the emperor Dawit   I received four fragments of the True Cross around the year 1400 from Coptic Christians as thanks for his protection. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church claims these relics are still held at either Egziabher Ab or Tekle Maryam, two monasteries near the former imperial cemetery on Amba Geshen . An inscription of 359 found at Tixter, in

2262-513: The 1955 Roman Catholic Marian Missal, Helena went to Jerusalem to search for the True Cross and found it 14 September 320. In the 8th century, the Feast of the Finding was transferred to 3 May and 14 September became the celebration of the " Exaltation of the Cross ", the commemoration of a victory over the Persians by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius , as a result of which the relic was recovered and returned to Jerusalem. The silver reliquary that

2349-615: The Covenant or the Jerusalem Temple as being God's footstool, and the prescribed Three Pilgrimage Festivals , in Hebrew aliya la-regel , lit. ascending to the foot ). A further tradition holds that these three trees from which the True Cross was constructed grew together in one spot. A traditional Orthodox icon in the Monastery of the Cross depicts Lot , the nephew of Abraham , watering

2436-461: The Cross bears witness, seen among us to this day, and from this place now almost filling the whole world, by means of those who in faith take portions from it." Egeria's account testifies to how highly these relics of the crucifixion were prized. John Chrysostom relates that fragments of the True Cross were kept in golden reliquaries, "which men reverently wear upon their persons." Even two Latin inscriptions around 350 from today's Algeria testify to

2523-432: The Cross." This text relates that pieces of the cross were dispersed as relics, but offers no information about the discovery of the cross itself. Elsewhere, in a letter to Emperor Constantius , Cyril only relates that the cross was found during the reign of Constantine . About forty years after Cyril, there was a fully developed story about how the True Cross was discovered. Cyril's nephew Gelasius of Caesarea recorded

2610-614: The Drukken Steps had been buried beneath the road surface of the Kilwinning bypass. In 1799 the Earl closed the road beyond the Drucken Steps to 'protect' his new policies, providing a diversion which ran via Knadgerhill. The stepping stones remained in situ without any bridge present until at least the late 1960s. The Red Burn was wider with a greater flow at that time, and the flow would have been even greater when Littlestane Loch , located near

2697-501: The Drukken steps. The Drukken Steps therefore were stepping stones on the course of an old Road, later a Toll Road (1774), which ran from the west end of Irvine through the Eglinton policies to Kilwinning and Stevenston via Milnburn (sic) or Millburn ; crossing the Red burn near Knadgerhill (previously Knadgar and pronounced 'Nygerhill' as in the country.) and running passed 'The Higgins' cottage,

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2784-592: The Eglinton Estate after the earl exchanged or excambied land at Bogside for this property, allowing him to build 'Long Drive' and a new controlled entrance, the Stanecastle Gates. Step-stone bridge In traditional Japanese gardens , the term iso-watari refers to stepping stone pathways that lead across shallow parts of a pond , which work like a bridge-like slower crossing. Using iso-watari for crossing ponds, or shallow parts of streams, one can view

2871-518: The Felix Basilica of Nola , built by bishop Paulinus at the beginning of 5th century. The cross particle was inserted in the altar. The Old English poem Dream of the Rood mentions the finding of the cross and the beginning of the tradition of the veneration of its relics. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also talks of King Alfred receiving a fragment of the cross from Pope Marinus (see: Annal Alfred

2958-468: The Great, year 883). Although it is possible, the poem need not be referring to this specific relic or have this incident as the reason for its composition. However, there is a later source that speaks of a bequest made to the 'Holy Cross' at Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset; Shaftesbury abbey was founded by King Alfred, supported with a large portion of state funds and given to the charge of his own daughter when he

3045-638: The Greek Orthodox priests who were supposedly in possession of the Cross tortured in order to reveal its location. The relic that Arnulf recovered was a small fragment of wood embedded in a golden cross, and it became the most sacred relic of the Kingdom of Jerusalem , with none of the controversy that had followed their discovery of the Holy Lance in Antioch . Displayed in a jewel-encrusted housing of gold and silver, it

3132-550: The Invention of the Holy Cross", Voragine writes that the True Cross came from a tree that grew from part of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil , "the tree that Adam ate of", that Seth planted on Adam's grave where it "endured there unto the time of Solomon ". Alternatively, it reached Solomon via Moses , who used it as the staff of Moses , and David , who planted it at Jerusalem. It

3219-596: The Jew who assisted Helena was named Jude or Judas but later converted to Christianity and took the name Kyriakos . Theodoret (died c.  457 ) in his Ecclesiastical History Chapter xvii gives what would become the standard version of the finding of the True Cross: When the empress beheld the place where the Saviour suffered, she immediately ordered the idolatrous temple, which had been there erected, to be destroyed, and

3306-485: The Latin patriarch would oversee mass at the various churches around Jerusalem corresponding to the part of Jesus's life being celebrated. The celebrations of Holy Week closely involved the Holy Sepulchre and its fragment of the True Cross. During lauds on each Good Friday , the Latin relic was carried across the church to the chapel of Calvary on its south side, the supposed site of Jesus's crucifixion, and then venerated by

3393-713: The May date (see also Roodmas ) was dropped from the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church in 1960 when the Roman Breviary was reformed by Pope John XXIII . The Orthodox still commemorate both events on September 14, one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the liturgical year , and the Procession of the Venerable Wood of the Cross on 1 August, the day on which the relics of the True Cross would be carried through

3480-928: The Middle Ages, during which period a thriving trade in manufactured relics went on. Smyrnakis notes that the largest surviving portion, of 870,760 cubic millimetres, is preserved in the Monastery of Koutloumousiou on Mount Athos , and also mentions the preserved relics in Rome (consisting of 537,587 cubic millimetres), in Brussels (516,090 cubic millimetres), in Venice (445,582 cubic millimetres), in Ghent (436,450 cubic millimetres) and in Paris (237,731 cubic millimetres). Santo Toribio de Liébana in Spain

3567-492: The Red Burn which was much wider than now (2009). Burns himself used the Scots spelling 'Drucken' rather than 'Drukken' or 'Druken'. The Scots word 'drouk', meaning 'drench' is another possible derivation. Strawhorn refers to the site as the 'Drunken Steps' or 'Drucken Steps'. The lower inscription (1927) on the commemorative cairn states: Eglinton Woods, Drukken Steps (St Bryde's Well), Favourite Walk (1781–82) of Robert Burns and his sailor friend Richard Brown. "Do you recollect

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3654-608: The True Cross but did not attempt to retake the city. Around 1009, the year in which Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , Christians in Jerusalem hid part of the cross and it remained hidden until the city was taken by the European soldiers of the First Crusade . Arnulf Malecorne , the first Latin patriarch of Jerusalem , had

3741-441: The True Cross showing that, in spite of what various authors have claimed, the fragments of the Cross brought together again would not reach one-third that of a cross which has been supposed to have been three or four metres (9.8 or 13.1 feet) in height, with transverse branch of two metres (6.6 feet) wide, proportions not at all abnormal. He calculated: supposing the Cross to have been of pine-wood (based on his microscopic analysis of

3828-432: The True Cross was actually lost by the Persians and that the wood contained in the allegedly still sealed reliquary brought to Jerusalem by Heraclius in 629 was a fake. In his analysis, the hoax was designed to serve the political purposes of both Heraclius and his former foe, recently turned ally and father-in-law, the Persian general and soon-king Shahrbaraz. When Jerusalem fell to the Muslims in 638, Heraclius retrieved

3915-432: The True Cross, as thick as a man's leg and a fathom in length." The misplacement of which particular class relics of the Holy Cross (and others in general) belong to , either as a result of confusion or exaggeration; and the outright forgery of relics , was a recurring controversy during the Medieval Age . This happened, often in order to attract pilgrims ; or even to facilitate the lucrative practice of Simony . By

4002-420: The [liturgical] Cross, which is now standing; the bishop duly takes his seat in the chair, and a table covered with a linen cloth is placed before him; the deacons stand round the table, and a silver-gilt casket is brought in which is the holy wood of the Cross. The casket is opened and [the wood] is taken out, and both the wood of the Cross and the title are placed upon the table. Now, when it has been put upon

4089-441: The account in a now lost Greek Ecclesiatical History prior to his death in 395. This version was adapted circa 402 in Rufinus of Aquileia's Latin additions to Eusebius' Church History. In this narrative, Helena went to Jerusalem in search of the relic and was made aware of its location by a heavenly sign. She tore down the temple of Aphrodite that had been built there, and beneath the rubble found three crosses. The cross of Jesus

4176-467: The barefoot patriarch, the sepulchre's canons, and the assembled pilgrims until sext . Prior to the liturgy on Holy Saturday , four pilgrims selected by the patriarch—preceded by a thurifer and 2 acolytes —carried the Latin relic from its chapel to the edicule of the Holy Sepulchre while the congregation waited with unlit candles. A New Fire would "spontaneously" light within the sepulchre. The crossbearer then would light his own candle from it, transit

4263-406: The box [cypress] together to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious." The link between this verse and the crucifixion lies in the words "the place of my feet", which is interpreted as referring to the footrest ( Latin : suppedāneum ) on which Jesus' feet were nailed and which appears on the Orthodox cross . (Compare with the Jewish concepts of the Ark of

4350-411: The bridge would bring about the replacement of God's covenant with the Jewish people by a new order. Solomon, fearing the eventual destruction of his people, had the timber buried. After fourteen generations, the wood taken from the bridge was fashioned into the Cross used to crucify Jesus Christ. Voragine then goes on to describe its rediscovery by Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine. In

4437-469: The coal being taken down to Irvine via the Drukken steps or via Stanecastle. During the years 1781–82 Robert Burns lived in Irvine , During this time he took regular walks into the Eglinton Woods via the old Irvine to Kilwinning toll road and the Drukken (Drunken) Steps and back via the site of the old Saint Brides or Bryde's Well at Stanecastle. Robert Burns wrote to Richard Brown or Ritchie Broun (1753–1833), on 30 December 1787, saying ..do you remember

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4524-453: The cross disappeared from historical records. The True Cross was last seen in the city of Damascus. The Greek Orthodox church presents a small True Cross relic shown in the Greek Treasury within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at the foot of Golgotha . The Syriac Orthodox Church also claims a small relic of the True Cross (held in the Monastery of Saint Mark in Jerusalem), as does the Armenian Apostolic Church (in Armenia). According to

4611-406: The demolition of the pagan temple and the erection of the church, but does not mention anywhere the finding of the True Cross. Perhaps the earliest witness to the tradition of the True Cross is Cyril , Bishop of Jerusalem (sed 350 to 386). In the fourth of his Catechetical Lectures which are dated to around the year 350, he says that "the whole world has since been filled with pieces of the wood of

4698-428: The end of the Middle Ages so many churches claimed to possess relics of the True Cross, that John Calvin is famously said to have remarked that there was enough wood in them to fill a ship: There is no abbey so poor as not to have a specimen. In some places there are large fragments, as at the Holy Chapel in Paris, at Poitiers, and at Rome, where a good-sized crucifix is said to have been made of it. In brief, if all

4785-404: The entire church, and light the candle of the waiting patriarch. The candles of the canons and then the congregation were then lit from one to another, gradually filling the church with light. After King Baldwin   I of Jerusalem presented King Sigurd   I of Norway with a splinter of the True Cross following the Norwegian Crusade in 1110, the Cross was captured by Saladin during

4872-423: The first century. In the story, Protonike traveled to Jerusalem after she met Simon Peter in Rome. She was shown around the city by James, brother of Jesus , until she discovered the cross after it healed her daughter of some illness. She then converted to Christianity and had a church built on Golgotha . Aside from the Syriac tradition, the Protonike version was also cited by Armenian sources. According to

4959-458: The fragments) and giving it a weight of about seventy-five kilogrammes, we find the original volume of the cross to be 0.178 cubic metres (6.286 cubic feet). The total known volume of known relics of the True Cross, according to his catalogue, amounts to approximately 0.004 cubic metres (0.141 cubic feet) (more specifically 3,942,000 cubic millimetres), leaving a volume of 0.174 m (6.145 cu ft), almost 98%, lost, destroyed, or from which

5046-400: The keeping and admiration of small particles of the cross. Around the year 455, Juvenal Patriarch of Jerusalem sent to Pope Leo I a fragment of the "precious wood", according to the Letters of Pope Leo. A portion of the cross was taken to Rome in the seventh century by Pope Sergius I , who was of Byzantine origin. "In the small part is power of the whole cross", says an inscription in

5133-445: The neighbourhood of Sétif in Mauretania (in today Algeria), was said to mention, in an enumeration of relics, a fragment of the True Cross, according to an entry in Roman Miscellanies , X, 441. Fragments of the Cross were broken up, and the pieces were widely distributed; in 348, in one of his Catecheses , Cyril of Jerusalem remarked that the "whole Earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ" and, in another, "The holy wood of

5220-418: The old farm of that name, still existed. The original plaque had been inserted in the old estate boundary wall at the site of the stepping stones, having been donated to the Irvine Burns Club by Sir Andrew R. Duncan of Irvine in 1927. The name 'Drukken' steps derives from a person's apparently drunken gait as they stepped from stone to stone whilst crossing the burn. Seven or more stones were originally set in

5307-406: The old road during Burns' time in Irvine, however in 1799 the earl closed this route and provided a diversion via Knadgerhill. The site of the old toll road crossing of the Red Burn is still extant near the original Eglinton Estate's Long Drive and the site of Saint Bride's well, now covered over, was at Stanecastle as is shown on the first edition of the OS map. The well site may even have been near

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5394-400: The outpouring of His precious Blood. But the wise and holy Macarius, the president of the city, resolved this question in the following manner. He caused a lady of rank, who had been long suffering from disease, to be touched by each of the crosses, with earnest prayer, and thus discerned the virtue residing in that of the Saviour. For the instant this cross was brought near the lady, it expelled

5481-418: The part of the cross held in Jerusalem as a trophy after he captured the city in 614. Thirteen years later, in 628, the Byzantine emperor Heraclius defeated Khosrau and regained the relic from Shahrbaraz . He placed the cross in Constantinople at first, before restoring it to Jerusalem on 21 March 630. Some scholars disagree with this narrative, with Constantin Zuckerman going as far as to suggest that

5568-417: The pieces that could be found were collected together, they would make a big ship-load. Yet the Gospel testifies that a single man was able to carry it. Conflicting with this is the finding of Charles Rohault de Fleury , who, in his Mémoire sur les instruments de la Passion of 1870 made a study of the relics in reference to the criticisms of Calvin and Erasmus . He drew up a catalogue of all known relics of

5655-462: The poet and his companion's logical return journey via Millburn , Auchenwincie, Sourlie, Littlestane, Girdle Gate, Stanecastle and then back to the old Toll Road and into Irvine. In 1761 the council records state that the "low ground of the Knadgerhill from the Drunken Steps near Higgens House southwards and to the east to the march with Stanecastle has been surveyed and laid out in eight plots" . As previously stated, In 1851 this land became part of

5742-424: The sacred wood, it is thus guarded by the deacons who stand around, lest any one approaching should venture to do so again. And as all the people pass by one by one, all bowing themselves, they touch the Cross and the title, first with their foreheads and then with their eyes; then they kiss the Cross and pass through, but none lays his hand upon it to touch it. When they have kissed the Cross and have passed through,

5829-433: The same version as Socrates. Without further attribution, he also adds that it was said that the location of the Sepulchre was "disclosed by a Hebrew who dwelt in the East and who derived his information from some documents which had come to him by paternal inheritance"—although Sozomen himself disputes this account—so that a dead person was also revived by the touch of the Cross. Later popular versions of this story state that

5916-470: The site of the stepping stones and it was to this wall that the original commemorative plaque had been attached. No gate or door existed here, entry being gained through a collapsed section. The nearby Knadgerhill Cemetery has one wall built from a continuation of this estate wall. Land in the vicinity of the Drukken Steps was locally known as the Spittal Meadow, held in 1666 by the Laird of Corsbie or Crosbie and Robert Woodside or Robert of Woodside. Spittal

6003-474: The sore disease, and made her whole. With the Cross were also found the Holy Nails , which Helena took with her back to Constantinople. According to Theodoret, "She had part of the cross of our Saviour conveyed to the palace. The rest was enclosed in a covering of silver, and committed to the care of the bishop of the city, whom she exhorted to preserve it carefully, in order that it might be transmitted uninjured to posterity." Another popular ancient version from

6090-408: The streets of Constantinople to bless the city. In addition to celebrations on fixed days, there are certain days of the variable cycle when the Cross is celebrated. The Catholic Church has a formal Adoration of the Cross during the services for Good Friday . In Eastern Orthodox churches everywhere, a replica of the cross is brought out in procession during Matins of Great and Holy Friday for

6177-408: The table, the bishop, as he sits, holds the extremities of the sacred wood firmly in his hands, while the deacons who stand around guard it. It is guarded thus because the custom is that the people, both faithful and catechumens, come one by one and, bowing down at the table, kiss the sacred wood and pass through. And because, I know not when, some one is said to have bitten off and stolen a portion of

6264-473: The three crosses placed in turn on a deathly ill woman. This woman recovered at the touch of the third cross, which was taken as a sign that this was the cross of Christ, the new Christian symbol. Socrates also reports that, having also found the cross's nails, Helena sent these to Constantinople , where they were incorporated into the emperor's helmet and the bridle of his horse. In his Ecclesiastical History , Sozomen (died c.  450 ) gives essentially

6351-467: The three crosses: Kings removing their diadems take up the cross, the symbol of their Saviour's death; on the purple, the cross; in their prayers, the cross; on their armour, the cross; on the holy table, the cross; throughout the universe, the cross. The cross shines brighter than the sun. The Catholic Church , the Eastern Orthodox Church , Oriental Orthodox Church , the Anglican Communion , and

6438-555: The trees. According to tradition, these trees were used to construct the Temple in Jerusalem ("to beautify the place of my sanctuary"). Later, during Herod's reconstruction of the Temple , the wood from these trees was removed from the Temple and discarded, eventually being used to construct the cross on which Jesus was crucified ("and I will make the place of my feet glorious"). The Life of Constantine by Eusebius of Caesarea (died 339)

6525-530: The two were living in Irvine from 1781 to 1782. The name "Drukken" steps derives from a person's gait as they stepped from stone to stone whilst crossing the Red Burn. Seven or more stones were originally set in the Red Burn which was much wider than in 2009. Burns himself used the Scots spelling "Drucken" rather than "Drukken". The ruins of the Drukken Steps are in the Eglinton Country Park . A deadly version of stepping stones involving glass tiles

6612-542: The very earth on which it stood to be removed. When the tomb, which had been so long concealed, was discovered, three crosses were seen buried near the Lord's sepulchre. All held it as certain that one of these crosses was that of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the other two were those of the thieves who were crucified with Him. Yet they could not discern to which of the three the Body of the Lord had been brought nigh, and which had received

6699-648: Was a term chiefly applied to lands, the revenues of which supported a hospice but, in some instances, the reference maybe to the site of a hospice for the infirm, lepers, etc. This name is also recorded in a document dated 1542. This could have formed part of the lands of the nunnery at Stanecastle which could have been the site of the spittal in question. Other spittals in Ayrshire were located in Ayr, Prestwick, Symington, Fail, Maybole, Mauchline, Stewarton and Kilmarnock. A Chapel of Saint Bridget (capelle sancte Brigide) near Stanecastle

6786-529: Was affixed the titulus bearing Jesus' name, but according to Rufinus, Helena was unsure of its legitimacy until a miracle revealed that this was the True Cross. This event is celebrated on the liturgical calendar as the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross ( Roodmas ) by the Oriental Orthodox , Eastern Orthodox , Persian, Roman Catholic , Lutheran, and Anglican churches. The Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and

6873-510: Was alive—it is conceivable that if Alfred really received this relic, that he may have given it to the care of the nuns at Shaftesbury. Most of the very small relics of the True Cross in Europe came from Constantinople . The city was captured and sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The Chronica Regia Coloniensis relates that "After the conquest of the city Constantinople inestimable wealth

6960-466: Was felled by Solomon to be a beam in his temple but not found suitable in the end. After many centuries, the tree was cut down and the wood used to build a bridge over which the Queen of Sheba passed on her journey to meet Solomon. So struck was she by the portent contained in the timber of the bridge that she fell on her knees and revered it. On her visit to Solomon, she told him that a piece of wood from

7047-556: Was found: incomparably precious jewels and also a part of the cross of the Lord, which Helena transferred from Jerusalem and [which] was decorated with gold and precious jewels. There it attained [the] highest admiration. It was carved up by the present bishops and was divided with other very precious relics among the knights; later, after their return to the homeland, it was donated to churches and monasteries." The French knight Robert de Clari wrote that "within this chapel were found many precious relics; for therein were found two pieces of

7134-621: Was gifted by the Venetian Republic to the Ethiopian Empire in the medieval period and remained in the Atse Emperor's personal possession into the 18th century, even being lost in battle, before being buried atop Amba Geshen . In 2016, a relic of True Cross held by Waterford Cathedral in Ireland, was radiocarbon dated to the 11th century by Oxford University . In February 2020,

7221-674: Was held by William Cuninghame and Robert Hamilton in 1666. The term 'rood' may refer to the True Cross , the specific wooden cross used in Christ's crucifixion; the name 'Red' may also derive from this. Knadgerhill was only acquired by the Earls of Eglinton in 1851 when the burgh excambied part of the lands of Bogside Flats for them. This allowed the construction of the new entrance to the policies at Stanecastle via Long Drive. Coal heughs were shallow pits and in 1686 they had been sunk at Doura and Armsheugh,

7308-507: Was housed in a northern chapel at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , overseen by its canons and protected by its knights . A second chapel beside it was overseen by the Syrian Orthodox and displayed another reliquary holding their fragment of the cross. The Latin fragment of the cross was repeatedly carried into battle against the Muslims. Over the course of each liturgical calendar ,

7395-416: Was identified, with the aid of Bishop Macarius of Jerusalem , by its miraculous affecting of a cure for a mortally ill woman. A Church was then built on the spot and the relic was divided, with part staying in Jerusalem and part given to Constantine along with the nails. In his Ecclesiastical History , nearly a century after Eusebius and forty years after Rufinus, Socrates Scholasticus (died c. 440) gives

7482-525: Was left at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in care of the bishop of Jerusalem was exhibited periodically to the faithful. In the 380s a nun named Egeria who was travelling on pilgrimage described the veneration of the True Cross at Jerusalem in a long letter known as her Itinerary ( Latin : Itinerarium Egeriae ), which she sent back to her convent: Then a chair is placed for the bishop in Golgotha behind

7569-460: Was recorded by Jacobus de Voragine , Bishop of Genoa , in the Golden Legend . The Golden Legend contains several versions of the origin of the True Cross. In The Life of Adam , Voragine writes that the True Cross came from three trees which grew from three seeds from the "Tree of Mercy" which Seth collected and planted in the mouth of Adam 's corpse. In another account contained in "Of

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