It stayed in the French Royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle until the French Revolution when it was deposited in the
Preserved in a gilded, crystalline reliquary and exposed to the faithful every year for a special service on Good Friday, the crown relic looks like a wreath comprised of brittle but elegantly woven marine rushes.
Various plants have been proposed as the source of the crown of thorns the New Testament says was placed on Christ's head in the lead-up to the crucifixion, and no-one knows for certain. But the consensus among Christian scholars tends toward Ziziphus Spina-Christi.
Scriptures Mentioning the Crown of Thorns
Three of the four Gospels mention specifically that Jesus had a crown of thorns put on his head by the Roman soldiers after they beat him.
The True Cross today
Some of the largest pieces to survive can be found in Europe's major religious institutions such as St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. One fragment, meanwhile, is said to be in a very strange place indeed.
The crown was housed at Notre Dame following the French Revolution. Since April's fire, it has resided in a safe in Paris's Louvre museum.
Nails venerated as those of Jesus's crucifixion
In the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome (spike of a nail). In the Holy Lance of the German imperial regalia in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. In the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Monza. In the treasury of Trier Cathedral.
The new analysis suggests the nails were lost from the tomb of the Jewish high priest Caiaphas, who reportedly handed Jesus over to the Romans for execution. Slivers of wood and bone fragments suggest they may have been used in a crucifixion.
Trier Cathedral's most precious relic is the Holy Robe, the Tunic of Christ.
Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
He may have stood about 5-ft.-5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
In 1870, French architect Charles Rohault de Fleury catalogued all known fragments of the true cross. He determined the Jesus cross weighed 165 pounds, was three or four meters high, with a cross beam two meters wide.
Crown of Thorns: These ancient treasures were saved from the Notre Dame inferno.
Its scientific name is Euphorbia Milli. This thick steamed plant grows admits the desert of Jericho and by the Dead Sea, 30 Miles from Jerusalem. This Beautiful ornamental plant which have densely thorns is said to have been used by Roman Legionaries to mock Christ at his Crucifixion.
Denoting sin, sorrow and hardship, the thorn is one of the most ancient symbols in the world; together with the ROSE, it represents pain and pleasure, and the thorn is an emblem of Christ's passion, as with the crown of thorns.
Eastern Christianity
According to the sacred tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church the True Cross was made from three different types of wood: cedar, pine and cypress.
Therefore in the language of symbolism, the three nails (666) are actually the Breath of Life for Jesus. 43. From the Bible we know only that two hands were nailed to cross, but there is no certain mention of the legs. 44. Jesus was dead for three days (or 24 x 3 = 72 hours) and then resurrected.
To speed death, executioners would often break the legs of their victims to give no chance of using their thigh muscles as support.
Crucifixion was invented by the Persians between 300-400 B.C. It is quite possibly the most painful death ever invented by humankind. The English language derives the word “excruciating” from crucifixion, acknowledging it as a form of slow, painful suffering.
It was kept in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris until 15 April 2019, when it was rescued from a fire and moved to the Louvre Museum. Reproductions of the crown are available to tourists from shops in Jerusalem.
Mark 15: 21
They compelled a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross; it was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
New test can detect crown-of-thorns starfish as quickly as a home pregnancy kit. Researchers at the Australian Institute of Marine Science have developed a dipstick test that can detect crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) on coral reefs by using the same technology as home pregnancy tests.
The French king Louis IX (St. Louis) took the relic to Paris about 1238 and had the Sainte-Chapelle built (1242–48) to house it. The thornless remains are kept in the treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; they survived a devastating fire in April 2019 that destroyed the church's roof and spire.