'Thorn from Jesus's crucifixion crown' goes on display at British Museum

Daily Mail ^ | Thursday, March 24, 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

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The Crown of Thorns is said to have been seized from Constantinople, the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, in the Fourth Crusade - around AD 1200 - and was later sold to King Louis IX of France while he was in Venice.

King Louis kept the religious relic in the specially-built Saint Chapel and thorns were broken off from the crown and given to people who married into the family as gifts.

The thorn at Stonyhurst College - a 400-year-old Jesuit boarding school - was said to have been given to Mary Queen of Scots who married into the French royal family and she took it with her to Holyrood in Edinburgh.

And following her execution in 1587, it was passed from her loyal servant, Thomas Percy, to his daughter, Elizabeth Woodruff, who then gave it to her confessor - a Jesuit priest - in 1600.

The Jesuits brought it with them to the college and it has been kept at the Ribble Valley college ever since.

Now it is to be loaned to the British Museum in London for a new exhibition, Treasures of Heaven, inspired by saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg_Cathedral

Other sites/sights of interest: the old Roman wall (built 179 AD, under Marcus Aurelius, with its “Porta Praetoria” — “Praetorian Gate” — just about big enough to drive a VW bug (or Roman chariot) through, and its corner tower with the clcove for the centurion to shelter from the weather...

Wanna go back no w “waah”

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