[Swordmaker]

This is not truly a Shroud of Turin PING, but it is related. It relates to the exhibition of a thorn supposedly crom the Crown of Thorns... So I’m pinging the Shroud list anyway.

[muawiyah]

Go ahead ~ years ago I read of a study someone had done of the various "pieces of the True Cross" which had some sort of certifiable origin (usually back to the raid on Constantinople).

Seems that if you added the mass of all the pieces together it was about 3/4 of a patibulum of the size normally used throughout the Roman Empire.

Same with the thorns ~ there's this one group and it was broken up among members of the same group called by its members "The Family". I'd suppose a formal study would find the pieces would come together as a sort of "crown" we find reflected in the Shroud of Turin. Might be worth doing such a study.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Melian]

Thanks for this interesting ping. I like the way the thorn is displayed wound in a string of pearls. Our faith is a pearl of great price!