Contributor   Join Date: 24th November 2007 Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Posts: 6,313 Blessings: 896,080,582 Reps: 628,621,878,571,469,824 (power: 0) The San Damiano cross is the large Romanesque rood cross that St. Francis of Assisi was praying before when he received the commission from the Lord to rebuild the Church. The original cross