MIRACULOUS CROSS – THE SCULPTOR WHO NEVER ATE AND THE TOOLS DISAPPEARED FROM THE CLOSED MONASTERY CELL,
There are many stories about the mysterious cross from Colombia, passed down from generation to generation and preserved in several historical and ecclesiastical records.

They all say the same thing. In the middle of the 18th century, on the beach in Cartagena de Indias (a city in northern Colombia, on the Caribbean Sea), Dominican monks found a large piece of wood. They took it to the monastery because they thought that the figure of Christ could be carved in it.
The monks showed the piece of wood to an elderly man who was in the monastery at the time and who claimed to be a sculptor from Florence.
But the artist reportedly concluded that the dimensions of the tree were inappropriate. He instructed the novices to throw that part back into the sea and look for another, more suitable one, to carve a life-size crucifix.
