“Holy Mother the Church celebrates today a feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, which we honor twice in the year. The first is the Discovery, in the month of May (May 3). The second today (Sept. 14) on the Exultation.  Reason, because after the Holy Cross was discovered by St. Helena, it came into the possession of the infidels, who contemptuously held it.  But Heraclius, the Most Holy and Christian Roman Emperor, extracted it from the possession of the infidels and exalted it honorably...” -St. Vincent Ferrer, Sermon on the Exaltation of the Holy Cross