“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....
Unless they can trace this thorn all the way back to the crucifixion of Jesus I am extremely skeptical ... no, not even skeptical, but believe it to be just a torn that was sold down through the ages to those that wanted to believe.