Gardaí have recovered priceless relics that were stolen from Holy Cross Abbey in County Tipperary last October. They include a piece of the cross that Jesus is believed to have been crucified on.

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Stolen relics of the 'true cross' were today returned by gardaí to the Holy Cross Abbey in Co Tipperary.

Holy Cross Abbey has been restored and is now a parish church. Three thousand people gathered for the reopening of the 800 year old abbey near Thurles in County Tipperary.

On Tuesday night two armed masked men raided the quiet monastery in daylight. The cross was handed over to the Holycross Abbey in Thurles, Tipperary in the 12th century by King Donal Mor O’Brien.

The annual national pilgrimage of the Apostate of Our Lady of Fatima to Holy Cross Abbey, Co. Tipperary, will take place on Sunday August 29. The ceremonies will begin at 2.30 p.m. with the Rosary ...

Progress on the Holycross village flood relief scheme has been welcomed, alongside hopes that it will pave the way for the greater development of a visitor centre for Holycross Abbey to realise ...

GARDAÍ AND priests are baffled by the theft from a historic abbey of three relics of the “true cross” on which Jesus Christ was crucified. The priceless artefacts were stolen by a gang of ...

A number of religious relics of the True Cross, stolen from the historic Holycross Abbey in Co Tipperary last October have been recovered by gardaí.

The Holy Cross Abbey in Thurles, Co Tipperary, will soon be reunited with a portion of the relic of the 'True Cross', which it originally donated to the Ursuline Convent in Blackrock, Cork, in the ...