One of the largest fragments of the True Cross is at Santo Toribio de Liébana in Spain. (photo F.J.Díez Martín).In a truly obsessive piece of scholarship, Charles Rohault de Fleury's Memoire sur les instruments de la passion de N.-S. J.-C. (Paris, 1870) counted all the alleged fragments and showed they only added up to considerably less than one cross ... more here.
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