High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Titulus Crucis (Latin for "Title of the Cross") is a piece of wood, claimed to be a relic of the True Cross, kept in the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome. Christian tradition claims that the relic is half of the cross`s titulus (inscription) and a portion of the True Cross. It is generally either ignored by scholars or considered to be a medieval forgery.