Every deed of Christ is a cause of glorying to the Catholic Church, but her greatest of all glorying is in the Cross…the glory of the Cross led those who were blind through ignorance into light, loosed all who were held fast by sin, and ransomed the whole world…His Passion then was real: for He was really crucified, and we are not ashamed thereat; He was crucified, and we deny it not, nay, I rather glory to speak of it….
–Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386)