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Christian relic

Christ conveying the cross with the crown of thorns, as painted by El Greco

Co-ordinate to the New Attestation, a woven crown of thorns (Greek: στέφανος ἐξ ἀκανθῶν stephanos ex akanthōn or ἀκάνθινος στέφανος akanthinos stephanos) was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to his crucifixion. Information technology was i of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his merits of authority. Information technology is mentioned in the gospels of Matthew ("And when they had plaited a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the articulatio genus and mocked him, saying Hail, King of the Jews!" 27:29), Mark (fifteen:17) and John (19:2, 5), and is often alluded to by the early Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen and others, along with being referenced in the apocryphal Gospel of Peter.^[1]

Since at to the lowest degree around the year 400, a relic believed past many to be the crown of thorns has been venerated. In 1238, the Latin Emperor Baldwin Ii of Constantinople yielded the relic to French King Louis Nine. It was kept in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris until 15 April 2019, when it was rescued from a burn and moved to the Louvre Museum.^[iii]

As a relic [edit]

Jerusalem [edit]

The iii Biblical gospels that mention the crown of thorns do not say what happened to it after the crucifixion. The oldest known mention of the crown already beingness adored equally a relic was made by Paulinus of Nola, writing subsequently 409,^[4] who refers to the crown as a relic that was adored by the faithful (Epistle Macarius in Migne, Patrologia Latina, LXI, 407). Cassiodorus (c. 570) speaks of the crown of thorns among other relics which were "the glory" of the urban center of Jerusalem. "There", he says, "nosotros may behold the thorny crown, which was only set upon the caput of Our Redeemer in gild that all the thorns of the world might be gathered together and broken" (Migne, Seventy, 621). When Gregory of Tours in De gloria martyri ^[v] avers that the thorns in the crown still looked green, a freshness which was miraculously renewed each twenty-four hours, he does not much strengthen the historical authenticity of a relic he had not seen, merely the Breviary or Brusque Description of Jerusalem ^{[6] : 16} ) (a brusk text dated to nigh 530 AD^{[6] : four} ), and the itinerary of Antoninus of Piacenza (sixth century)^{[7] : 18} clearly state that the crown of thorns was then shown in the "Basilica of Mount Zion," although there is doubt about the actual site to which the authors refer.^{[7] : 42 et seq.} From these fragments of bear witness and others of later appointment (the "Pilgrimage" of the monk Bernard shows that the relic was still at Mount Zion in 870), information technology is shown that a purported crown of thorns was venerated at Jerusalem in the offset centuries of the common era.

Constantinople [edit]

Some time after, the crown was purportedly moved to Constantinople, and then capital of the empire. Historian Francois de Mély supposed that the whole crown was transferred from Jerusalem to Constantinople not much before 1063. In whatsoever instance, Emperor Justinian is stated to have given a thorn to Germain, Bishop of Paris, which was long preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, while the Empress Irene, in 798 or 802, sent Charlemagne several thorns which were deposited by him at Aachen. Eight of these are said to have been in that location at the induction of the basilica of Aachen; the subsequent history of several of them tin be traced without difficulty: four were given to Saint-Corneille of Compiègne in 877 by Charles the Bald; Hugh the Bang-up, Duke of the Franks, sent one to the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan in 927, on the occasion of certain marriage negotiations, and it eventually constitute its way to Malmesbury Abbey; some other was presented to a Spanish princess nigh 1160; and once more another was taken to Andechs Abbey in Germany in the yr 1200.^[8]

France [edit]

In 1238, Baldwin II, the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, broken-hearted to obtain support for his tottering empire, offered the crown of thorns to Louis Ix of French republic. It was so in the hands of the Venetians as security for a great loan of 13,134 aureate pieces, however it was redeemed and conveyed to Paris where Louis IX built the Sainte-Chapelle, completed in 1248, to receive it. The relic stayed there until the French Revolution, when, subsequently finding a habitation for a while in the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Concordat of 1801 restored it to the Catholic Church, and it was deposited in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.^[9]

The relic that the church received is a twisted circlet of rushes of Juncus balticus,^[x] a found native to maritime areas of northern Britain, the Baltic region, and Scandinavia;^[eleven] the thorns preserved in various other reliquaries are of Ziziphus spina-christi,^[ten] a plant native to Africa and Southern and Southwest asia, and had allegedly been removed from the Crown and kept in dissever reliquaries since soon after they arrived in France.^[10] New reliquaries were provided for the relic, one commissioned past Napoleon Bonaparte, another, in jeweled rock crystal and more suitably Gothic, was made to the designs of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. In 2001, when the surviving treasures from the Sainte-Chapelle were exhibited at the Louvre, the chaplet was solemnly presented every Friday at Notre-Dame. Pope John Paul 2 translated it personally to Sainte-Chapelle during World Youth Day. The relic can exist seen only on the beginning Friday of every month, when information technology is exhibited for a special veneration Mass, equally well as each Fri of Lent.^[12] See also Feast of the Crown of Thorns.

Members of the Paris Burn down Brigade saved the relic during the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 15, 2019.^[13]

The Catholic Encyclopedia states:

Regime are agreed that a sort of helmet of thorns must have been plaited by the Roman soldiers, this band of rushes being employed to concur the thorns together. It seems probable according to M. De Mély, that already at the time when the circlet was brought to Paris the lx or seventy thorns, which seem to have been afterwards distributed by St. Louis and his successors, had been separated from the ring of rushes and were kept in a different reliquary. None of these now remain at Paris. Some small fragments of blitz are also preserved ... at Arras and at Lyons. With regard to the origin and character of the thorns, both tradition and existing remains suggest that they must have come up from the bush botanically known as Ziziphus spina-christi, more popularly, the jujube tree. This reaches the height of fifteen or twenty feet and is found growing in abundance by the wayside around Jerusalem. The crooked branches of this shrub are armed with thorns growing in pairs, a straight spine and a curved ane usually occurring together at each point. The relic preserved in the Capella della Spina at Pisa, too as that at Trier, which though their early history is doubtful and obscure, are among the largest in size, afford a skilful illustration of this peculiarity.^[14]

Third-class relics [edit]

Nuremberg 16th-century silver medal of Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns by Valentin Maler.

Not all of the reputed holy thorns are first-class relics, that is, relics of the original crown. Thousand. de Mély was able to enumerate more than 700. The statement in one medieval obituary that Peter de Averio gave to the cathedral of Angers, "unam de spinis quae fuit apposita coronae spinae nostri Redemptoris " ("one of the spines which were fastened to the thorny crown of our Redeemer") (de Mély, p. 362) indicates that many of the thorns were relics of the third grade—objects touched to a relic of the first form, in this case some office of the crown itself. (In Roman Cosmic tradition, a relic of the beginning class is a part of the body of a saint or, in this case, any of the objects used in the Crucifixion that carried the blood of Christ; a relic of the second class is anything known to have been touched or used by a saint; a relic of the 3rd class is a devotional object touched to a start-class relic and, usually, formally blessed as a sacramental.) Again, even in insufficiently modern times, it is not always easy to trace the history of these objects of devotion, as first-class relics were often divided and any number of authentic third-course relics may be.

Purported remnants [edit]

Christ Carrying the Cantankerous by Andrea Solario, 1513, portrays the crown of thorns

Prior to the Seventh Crusade, Louis IX of France bought from Baldwin II of Constantinople what was venerated as Jesus' Crown of Thorns. It is kept in Paris to this day, in the Louvre Museum. Private thorns were given by the French monarch to other European royals: the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum, for example, containing a single thorn, was made in the 1390s for the French prince Jean, duc de Drupe, who is documented as receiving more ane thorn from Charles V and Half-dozen, his brother and nephew.^[15]

Ii "holy thorns" were venerated, i at St. Michael's church building in Ghent, the other at Stonyhurst College, both professing to be thorns given past Mary, Queen of Scots to Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland.^{[16] [14]}

The "Gazetteer of Relics and Miraculous Images" lists the following, post-obit Cruz 1984:

• Kingdom of belgium: Parochial Church of Wevelgem: a portion of the crown of thorns (since 1561)^[17]
• Belgium: Ghent, St. Michael's Church: A thorn from the crown of thorns.^[16]
• Czechia: Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral: A thorn of the crown of thorns, in the cross at the meridian of Crown of Saint Wenceslas, part of the Bohemian Crown Jewels
• France: Notre-Dame de Paris: The crown of thorns brought from the Holy Land by Louis Nine in the twelfth century, from which private thorns have been given by the French monarchs to other European royals; it is displayed the first Friday of each calendar month and all Fridays in Lent (including Skilful Friday)
• French republic: Sainte-Chapelle: A portion of the crown of thorns, brought to the site by Louis IX.
• Germany: Cathedral of Trier: A thorn from the crown of thorns
• Frg: Cologne, Kolumba: A thorn from the crown of thorns, given past Louis IX to the Dominicans of Liège, and a second thorn from the treasure of St. Kolumba, Cologne
• Germany: Elchingen: Church building of the former Benedictine Abbey Kloster Elchingen: a thorn brought to the church in 1650/51^[eighteen]
• Italy: Rome, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme: Two thorns from the crown of thorns.
• Italy: Rome, Santa Prassede: A small portion of the crown of thorns
• Italy: Pisa, Chiesa di Santa Chiara: A branch with thorns from the crown of thorns
• Italy: Naples, Santa Maria Incoronata: A fragment of the crown of thorns
• Italy: Ariano Irpino, Cathedral: Ii Thorns from the crown of thorns
• Portugal: Lisbon, Museum of St. Roque, SCML, Reliquary of the Holy Thorn
• Spain: Oviedo, Cathedral: Five thorns (formerly eight) from the crown of thorns
• Spain: Barcelona, Cathedral: A thorn from the crown of thorns
• Spain: Seville, Iglesia de la Anunciación (Hermandad del Valle): A thorn from the crown of thorns
• United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland: British Museum: Holy Thorn Reliquary (see above), Salting Reliquary, each with a thorn
• Britain: Stanbrook Abbey, Worcester: A thorn from the crown of thorns
• U.k.: Stonyhurst College, Lancashire: A thorn from the crown of thorns.^[sixteen]
• United States: St. Anthony's Chapel, Pittsburgh: A thorn from the crown of thorns
• Ukraine: Odessa, St. Prophet Elijah Monastery: A fragment of a thorn of the crown of thorns

Iconography [edit]

The appearance of the crown of thorns in fine art, notably upon the head of Christ in representations of the Crucifixion or the subject Ecce Homo, arises after the time of St. Louis and the building of the Sainte-Chapelle. The Cosmic Encyclopedia reported that some archaeologists had professed to discover a effigy of the crown of thorns in the circle which sometimes surrounds the chi-rho keepsake on early Christian sarcophagi, but the compilers considered that it seemed to be quite as likely that this was merely meant for a laurel wreath.

The image of the crown of thorns is ofttimes used symbolically to contrast with earthly monarchical crowns. In the symbolism of Male monarch Charles the Martyr, the executed English Male monarch Charles I is depicted putting aside his earthly crown to take up the crown of thorns, every bit in William Marshall's print Eikon Basilike. This dissimilarity appears elsewhere in art, for example in Frank Dicksee's painting The Two Crowns.

Carnations symbolize the passion as they correspond the crown of thorns.

Photograph gallery [edit]

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  Detail of the 1862 reliquary.

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  Statuary bust of Jesus with in the Monumental cemetery of Brescia.

Criticism of the admiration of the crown of thorns [edit]

A critique of the admiration of the crown of thorns was gear up forth in 1543 by John Calvin in the work Treatise on Relics. He described numerous parts of the crown of thorns known to him, located in different cities.^[nineteen] Based on a large number of parts of the crown of thorns, Calvin wrote:

In regard to the Crown of thorns, information technology would seem that its twigs had been planted that they might grow again. Otherwise I know not how it could take attained to such a size. First, a third part of it is at Paris, in the Holy Chapel, and and then at Rome there are three thorns in Santa Croce, and some portion also in St. Eustathius. At Sienna, I know not how many thorns, at Vineennes one, at Bourges five, at Besan~on, in the church of St. John, three, and as many at Koningsberg. At the church of St. Salvator, in Kingdom of spain, are several, only how many I know not; at Compostella, in the church of St. Jago, 2; in Vivarais, 3; too at Toulouse, Mascon, Charrox in Poicton, St. Clair, Sanflor, San Maximinin Provence, in the monastery of Selles, and as well in the church of St. Martin at Noyon, each place having a unmarried thorn. But if diligent search were made, the number might be increased fourfold. It is most evident that at that place must here be falsehood and imposition. How volition the truth exist ascertained? It ought, moreover, to be observed, that in the ancient Church information technology was never known what had go of that crown. Hence information technology is easy to conclude, that the first twig of that now shown grew many years after our Saviour's death.^[20]

Run into also [edit]

• Relics associated with Jesus
  • Arma Christi
  • Holy Sponge
  • Lance of Longinus
  • Titulus Crucis
  • Truthful Cross
• Euphorbia milii
• Jesus, Male monarch of the Jews
• Life of Jesus in the New Testament
• Man of Sorrows
• Paliurus spina-christi
• Radiant crown
• Solar symbol
• Sorrowful Mysteries

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Walter Richard (1894). The Gospel According to Peter: A Report. Longmans, Dark-green. p. seven. Retrieved 2022-04-02 .
2. ^ Davisson, Darrell D (2004). Kleinhenz, Christopher (ed.). Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia. Vol. i. Abingdon, England: Routledge. p. 955. ISBN9780415939294.
3. ^ Clicquot, Athénaïs (9 September 2019). "Notre-Dame : la couronne d'épines à nouveau présentée à la vénération des fidèles" (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-xv .
4. ^ Wall, J. Charles (2016). Relics from the Crucifixion: Where They Went and How They Got In that location. Sophia Plant Press. p. 95. ISBN9781622823277 . Retrieved 19 Apr 2019.
5. ^ Published in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores Merovingenses", I, 492.
6. ^ ^{a b} The Epitome of S. Eucherius Virtually Certain Holy Places: And the Breviary or Short Clarification of Jerusalem. London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. 1896.
7. ^ ^{a b} Stewart, Aubrey; Wilson, CW, eds. (1896). Of the Holy Places Visited by Antoninus Martyr (Circ. 560–570 A.D.). London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. Retrieved 16 Apr 2019.
8. ^ History and Authenticity of the Relic of the Crown of Thorns (2019). Mystogogy Resource Center.
9. ^ "France: Kissing the original Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus | Minor Sights". www.minorsights.com . Retrieved 2016-08-05 .
10. ^ ^{a b c} Ruby, 22
11. ^ "Den virtuella floran: Juncus arcticus Willd". Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Sweden. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
12. ^ "France: Kissing the original Crown of Thorns| Minor Sights". www.minorsights.com . Retrieved 2016-08-05 .
13. ^ ""Computer glitch" may be behind Notre Dame Cathedral fire, rector says - live updates". CBS News. 19 April 2019.
14. ^ ^{a b} Thurston, Herbert (1908). "Crown of Thorns". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Appleton.
15. ^ Cherry, 22–23
16. ^ ^{a b c} John Morris, Life of Male parent Gerard (London, 1881), pp. 126-131.
17. ^ Vandaele, Luc (xx March 2006). "In de ban van de Heilige Doorn (Wevelgem)". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 4 Feb 2014.
18. ^ Deger, Manfred (24 August 2011). "Glaube: Der Dorn und die Bruderschaft". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German language). Retrieved 4 February 2014.
19. ^ Mullett, Michael (xix May 2011). John Calvin. Abingdon, England: Routledge. p. 105. ISBN9780415476980.
20. ^ An Admonition showing, the Advantages which Christendom might derive from an Inventory of Relics (1844) past John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge

References [edit]

• Cherry, John (2010). The Holy Thorn Reliquary, The British Museum Printing. ISBN 978-0714128207
• Westerson, Jeri (2009). Ophidian in the Thorns; A Medieval Noir. New York: Minotaur Books. ISBN978-0312649449. (Fiction referencing the crown of thorns.)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Crown of Thorns". Cosmic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

External links [edit]

• Notre Dame De Paris

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