Precious: The relic, said to be a thorn from Jesus's crown, has been kept at Stonyhurst College, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, for the last 200 years. The thorn has Mary Queen of Scots's pearls twined around it
Precious: The relic, said to be a thorn from Jesus's crown, has been kept at Stonyhurst College, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, for the last 200 years. The thorn has Mary Queen of Scots's pearls twined around it
Yep, the axe I hold in my hand is the same one that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. Of course the handle has been replaced several times as well as the axe head, but it is the same axe non-the less.
I don’t see anything. From what I’ve read/seen the thorny plants that grow in the area have thorns 3-4 inches long. I can’t even see the one in the tube.
“is said to have been seized from Constantinople”
Ahhhhh!
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/dvii.html#relics
MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds. (1852)
By CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D.
See: Volume II. Relics.
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Very Very Skeptical....
This is the kind of **** that Jesus threw people out of the temple for.
Similar
THE GLASTONBURY THORN
http://christmas-celebrations.org/103-glastonbury-thorn.html
said to bloom only at Christmas.
I think there are enough of Jesus' crucifixion crown thorns still around to build Noah's Ark.
On the other hand...Wow! Mary Queen of Scot’s pearls!!!
Even though this is most likely not a true thorn from THE Crown, it seems to have an unbroken chain of history for several centuries. That in of itself is something to note. Thanks for this thread and all you do here.
Somewhere in my slide collection is a pic of a similar thorn in a monstrance (sp? usage?) which was in the sacristy of the cathedral in Regensburg, Germany. Perhaps someone here saw the same one?
No way of knowing if it’s real— it was interestingly ancient enough had it merely dated from the days when Charlemagne would visit the city.
2000 year old thorns, is it?
Mary, Queen of Scots was not simply executed. She was murdered. A frame that said she was guilty of treason. She was a sovereign in her own right as Queen of Scotland. She owed no allegiance to the English queen. Murder was quite common in the Stuarts time.
Such a relic ought to be shown without jewelry, etc. blocking a clear view.
And what’s this, King Louis busted up the original crown?
Even on the view (which I share) that these relics have no supernatural powers in themselves, one would expect at least as much respect as a museum would give any item involved in an important historical event.
Maybe there’s some holy DNA on it and we can solve that whole vexing Mary Magdalene/Merovingean Line thing.
