Editing Relics associated with Jesus (section)

===Crown of Thorns===
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[[File:Couronne_d'epines_-_Crown_of_Thorns_Notre_Dame_Paris.jpg|right|thumb|[[Relic]] of the crown of thorns, received by French [[Louis IX of France|King Louis IX]] from [[Baldwin II, Latin Emperor|emperor Baldwin II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davisson |first1=Darrell D |title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415939294 |editor1-last=Kleinhenz |editor1-first=Christopher |volume=1 |location=Abingdon, England |page=955}}</ref> It was preserved at [[Notre-Dame de Paris]] until April 2019, when it was moved to the Louvre following [[Notre-Dame fire|a fire]].]]
The relics of [[Passion (Christianity)|the Passion]] presented at [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre-Dame Cathedral]] in [[Paris]] include a piece of the True Cross from Rome as delivered by Helena, along with a Holy Nail and the Crown of Thorns.  The [[Gospel of John]] tells that, in the night between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, Roman soldiers mocked Jesus by placing a thorny crown on his head (John 19:12).<ref>{{bibleverse|John|19:12|NIV}}</ref> The crown is a circle of cane bundled together and held by gold threads. The thorns were attached to this braided circle, which measured {{cvt|21|cm}} in diameter. The seventy thorns were reportedly divided up between the Byzantine emperors and the Kings of France.

The accounts of pilgrims to Jerusalem report the Crown of Thorns. In 409, Paulinus of Nola states the Crown was kept in the basilica on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 570, Anthony the Martyr reports the Crown of Thorns in the Basilica of Zion. Around 575, Cassiodorus wrote, "Jerusalem has the Column, here, there is the Crown of Thorns!" Between the 7th and the 10th centuries, the Crown of Thorns was moved to the Byzantine emperors' chapel in Constantinople for safekeeping. In 1238, the Latin Emperor [[Baldwin II of Constantinople]] pawned the relics for credit to a Venetian bank.

[[Louis IX of France|Louis IX]], the king of France redeemed the Crown from the Venetian Bank. On 10 August 1239, the king deposited 29 relics in [[Villeneuve-l'Archevêque]]. On 19 August 1239, the relics arrived in Paris. Wearing a simple tunic and with bare feet, the King placed the Crown of Thorns and other relics in the palace chapel in a structure he commissioned. During the French revolution, the relics were stored in the National Library. After the Concordat in 1801, the relics were given to the archbishop of Paris who placed them in the Cathedral treasury on 10 August 1806. Since then, these relics have been conserved by the canons of the Metropolitan Basilica Chapter, who are in charge of venerations, and guarded by the Knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Napoleon I and Napoleon III each offered reliquaries for the crown of thorns. They were on display at Notre-Dame Cathedral during scheduled religious ceremonies, until a serious fire struck the cathedral on 15 April 2019.<ref>[http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/Veneration-of-the-Crown-of-Thorns Notre Dame de Paris - Veneration of the Crown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028110046/http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/Veneration-of-the-Crown-of-Thorns |date=2010-10-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/04/16/notre-dame-cathedral-art-relics-saved-fire-firefighters-crown-of-thorns-paris/3485917002/|title=Notre Dame fire: Paris Fire Brigade chaplain braved the blaze to rescue cathedral treasures|website=[[USA Today]] |date=2019-04-17}}</ref>