 The local tradition of Ancona has identified this saint with the Jew named Judas Quiriacus or Kyriakos.According to legend, a Jew Judas Kyriakos aided the Empress Helena in finding the True Cross, which had been buried at Golgotha after the crucifixion.The oldest extant Syriac text of the legend of the discovery of the True Cross by Judas Kyriakos dates from c. 500 AD.