Returning from the house of the healed woman to Golgotha, the Christians met a funeral procession. Filled with faith, the pious Saint Macarius boldly applied the Cross of the Lord to the deceased, and the Cross of the Conqueror of death and hell, again breaking the bonds of death, gave life to the deceased.

The news of the miracle, which shocked those present, flew around Jerusalem in the twinkling of an eye and gathered believers and non-believers to the foot of the Cross on Golgotha. And countless people wanted to see the miraculous Tree at least from afar.

Saint Macarius and Empress Helena, standing on a dais, raised the Precious Cross as high as possible on all four sides, so that all could bow down to it. The people, seized with reverent awe, cried out in multitude: "Lord, have mercy!"

The power of the influence of the Life-Creating Tree was so great that the Jews were baptized in great numbers, and among them was the elder Judas, who pointed out the place where the Cross of the Lord was hidden, who received the name Kyriakos in baptism and became by the mercy of God at the end of his life the bishop of Jerusalem, and during the short period of his life in Christianity he himself ascended his martyric cross during the reign of Julian the Apostate.

Thus was accomplished the finding of the Cross of the Lord. Three hundred and twenty-six years after the crucifixion of the Savior, the Life-Giving Wood of the Cross of the Lord again became a preacher of the power and Divinity of Christ.

"Worthily and righteously venerate the Cross of Christ," says St. Demetrius of Rostov, the Russian Chrysostom, in his homily on the Exaltation of the Cross, "for by this blessed Tree death was slain and life was granted. By the Tree of Paradise we were slain, but by the Tree of the Cross we were made alive; we are the first to be expelled from paradise, the second we ascend to heaven; the enemy defeated us first, and the enemy defeated us second."

After the discovery of the Life-Creating Cross of the Lord, the Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine gave orders to erect in Jerusalem a majestic and spacious church in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, which included both the Holy Sepulchre and Golgotha.