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Paros, Greece: church built by Saint Helen, now dedicated to Justinian There was a church built in the 6th c AD by Saint Helen on her way to Jerusalem to find the holy cross. Helen was the mother of Constantine. When she reached Palestine, Helen found basil plants and told her helpers to dig there, and she found 3 crosses. The legend is that you can put a dead body on each of the crosses to see which was the true cross, because on the true cross the dead would be resurrected. Earthquakes have damaged the church. It has a mosaic floor, and a well for the baptismal font. The balcony was reserved for women. The iconostasis screen has icons of the 17th c AD. The church has tombs in the floor. The green marble in the church was quarried in Tinos. This church built by Saint Helen is now dedicated to Justinian.