An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” is returning to Notre Dame, nearly five ...

The crown — a circular band of branches encased in a gilded golden tube — was brought back to its historic home in a ceremony ...

Starting Jan. 10, the Crown of Thorns at Notre Dame Cathedral will be displayed for public veneration every Friday until ...

The relic that many Christians believe is the “Crown of Thorns” that Jesus Christ wore returned to Notre Dame in Paris after ...

"We are moving from the time of Advent to the time of the Passion, but that is the way it is all the time in life, and in the ...

An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s Crown of Thorns was returned to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris ...

The crown was acquired by King Louis IX of France in Constantinople in 1239 for 135,000 livres - nearly half France's annual ...

The ancient relic returned Friday to the cathedral five years after it was saved from the flames of the medieval monument’s ...

The ancient relic, among many saved by firefighters in the 2019 blaze, is returning to the cathedral in Paris.

The Crown of Thorns relic is returning to Notre Dame nearly five years after it was saved from the cathedral’s devastating ...

By Emily Guerry A lot of my research involves examining relics from Jesus’s final days. Over the years, I’ve had the ...

Local clerics carried out the bodies of saints in shrines in the procession, so it also seemed that the patrons of Paris were celebrating the arrival of Christ to their city. The ceremony culminated ...