Today's Feast celebrates a double anniversary: In Jerusalem, Constantine erected a round Church, the Anastasis, above the empty grave of Jesus, and a Basilica, the Martyrium. In the square between the two churches, a shrine, Calvarium, marking the place of the Crucifixion.
Dedicated in the year 335, they were all destroyed by the Persians in 614. The present Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built by the Crusaders in 1149.
Today also commemorated the discovery of the Lord's Cross by the Empress, St. Helena, in 320.
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