Synopsis

Driven by a quest for the True Cross, a relic whispered to possess profound healing properties and lost for two millennia, Gates journeys to the heart of its legend. His search leads him first to Jerusalem, Israel, and then to Istanbul, Turkey, seeking evidence of the cross's continued existence, or perhaps of surviving fragments. The cross, according to tradition, was divided into three pieces by Empress Helena. He investigates this history within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old Cit