And finally, the cross leads to hope. Easter Sunday — the day Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection — proclaims that death, despair, and darkness do not have the final say.

On Easter Sunday at two local Episcopalian Churches, the cross will be transformed from a symbol of death to a sign of life and bells will ring out during the choruses of alleluias.

A team in the Vatican Museums’ painting and wood-restoration laboratory worked on the cross since 2018. The work is now part of a temporary exhibit in the Vatican Museums, “Fragments of Hope ...