Russian warship sunken in Ukraine war may have been carrying a piece of the 'true cross,' a treasured Christian relic.

 You never know.

At roughly 600 feet long, the guided missile cruiser is a large target. It was armed with 16 anti-ship missiles and was originally built to destroy U.S. aircraft carriers. According to Russia’s Tass news agency, the Moskva entered service in 1983 and carried a revered Christian relic, a piece of the True Cross, upon which some believe Jesus was crucified. The wood-chip relic, several millimeters long, was embedded in a 19th-century metal cross and stored on the ship, an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church told Tass in 2020.