The life-giving Cross of the Lord is usually called the cross on which Jesus was crucified. According to Christian legends, thanks to him, many miracles were performed, including healings, resurrection and victories 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 initially a simple object that does not possess any special properties and was brought to the place of Jesus' execution ready-made. Nevertheless, apocryphal literature describes a variety of legends regarding the origin of this relic. A reliable story about this is unknown, so Christians still choose from the legends described those that they like the 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 Flood, the tree that grew in Eden was carried away by the raging waves, and later found by Moses. He planted this tree of paradise, and many years later it was cut down and a cross was made from the 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 up together until the fall of people and their expulsion from paradise. After this event, only one trunk remained standing, while the other two split and were carried away from paradise, like those to whom these trunks were dedicated. They ended up in different places, and the water carried two parts of the tree of paradise around the world until the time of the death of the Savior came. And then they made boards from these trees, placed them with a cross and crucified Jesus on them.
There is another explanation according to which Moses grew a tree for the Life-giving Cross with his own hands. Legend has it that an angel, at the behest of God, appeared to Moses and gave him branches of cypress, cedar and aloe, ordering them to plant them together in the ground. He fulfilled the order, and all three trees grew, intertwined with trunks and branches, and subsequently they were cut down to make a cross for crucifixion. Another legend says that the cross and the tablet were not made of three trees, but of four - cedar, olive, palm and cypress.
