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The persecution of Christianity by the Roman Empire ended when Constantine I promulgated the Edict of Milan in 313 and recognized Christianity. Constantine I had a preferential policy for Christianity and issued more than 30 kinds of coinage symbolizing Christianity, and these coins were engraved with a cross.<ref>[https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002330946 A Study on the First Christian Coins of the Emperor Constantine], ''Korea Citation Index'', 2018</ref> With the support of the emperor, the Roman Church (now the Roman Catholic Church) expanded and adopted the religious customs of pagans who converted to Christianity.<ref>Constantine, Christianity and pagan customs, A Lion Handbook, ''The History of Christianity'', Tim Dowley, Lion Publishing 1977, pg. 141 </ref> One of them was the worship of the cross. In the Roman Catholic Church, the mother of Constantine I, Helena, who was called a "saint," claimed that she discovered the True Cross. Moreover, between 320 and 345, the Roman Catholic Church built the Monastery of the Cross and the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem on the pretext that they needed a church to place the cross where Jesus died. After that, they established a feast for the dedication of the church and began to recognize the cross as an object of honor.<ref name="가톨릭 십자가">The Cross, In Tradition, History, And, Art, Rev. William Wood Seymour, ''The Knickerbocker Press'', 1898, pg. 185, pg. 399</ref> It was not until the year 431 that the crosses began to be hung inside the church. Around 568, a cross was installed on a church steeple.<ref>[http://jmagazine.joins.com/monthly/view/318953 <nowiki>[Special Feature ● Luther's 500 Years of Religious Reformation – Church of God and Truth in the Bible] What are they believing and practicing?</nowiki>], ''Monthly JoongAng'', November 17, 2017</ref> In 692, through the Church Council in Trullo, worshiping the cross was strengthened. After the Second Council of Nicaea officially adopted the cross worship in 787, most of churches in the world have been making various kinds of crosses and worshiping them until today.<ref name="가톨릭 십자가" />

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