Christianity expanded and strengthened. Even the powerful of this world were already thinking about the Divine origin of the Crucified One and Ascended to the Cross. Emperor Constantine the Great was vouchsafed with all his army to see a sign of God – the Cross shining in the sky from the stars and the radiance of the inscription around it: "In this you will conquer." And the sign of the Cross gave him the way to many victories in battle.

Such manifestations revived in the minds of Christians the memory of the first Cross of the Lord, and with it the faith that this great shrine could not perish. By this time the Church had already been filled with many living testimonies of the feats of bearing the cross, and it was so lacking for the triumph, glory, and joy of that one Cross, from which the victory over death shone. And the work of searching for the Cross of the Lord was taken upon herself by the eighty-year-old Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine. The Holy Spirit inspired this queen (later called Equal-to-the-Apostles), to the glory of the Crucified One and to the joy of Orthodox Christians, to exert much labor and effort in order to find the holy thing.

The pagan emperors and the malice of the Jews tried to completely destroy in man the memories of sacred events and sacred places where our Lord Jesus Christ suffered for people and rose again. The Holy Sepulchre and Golgotha were covered with earth, and a pagan pagan temple was erected on the site of an artificial hill.

And now the Christian queen was looking for traces of the lost treasure among the Jews hostile to Christianity.

And how great is the power and authority of God, you can judge for yourselves: to the queen's question addressed to the elder Jews: "Where did your ancestors hide the Cross of Christ?" they pointed out to her a certain old Jew Judas, who, in response to a repeated question, apparently against his will, led her to the place of the temple of Venus and said: "In this very place you will find the Cross of your Christ."

Judas betrayed Christ to the Cross, and three hundred years later another Judas contributed to the manifestation of the glory of Christ.

After the removal of the pagan temple, the search continued for a long time, and hopes were replaced by hopelessness, until the Lord Himself deigned to reveal to people the shrine resting in the ground. The fragrance of the Holy Spirit, which came from the earth, put an end to the search.