Crown of Thorns. According to three of the Gospels, a woven crown of thorns was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus.
It was one of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority. It is mentioned in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John and is often alluded to by the early Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen and others.
In later centuries, relics believed by many to be all or part of the Crown of Thorns have been venerated. For the first four centuries there was no extra-biblical mention of the crown of thorns.
A few writers of the fifth and sixth centuries AD speak of a relic known to be still in existence and venerated by the faithful. St. Paulinus of Nola, writing after 409, refers to the thorns with which Our Saviour was crowned as relics held in honour along with the cross to which he was nailed and the pillar at which he was scourged.
Cassiodorus, when commenting on Psalm lxxxvi, speaks of the crown of thorns among the other relics which are the glory of the earthly Jerusalem. There, he says, we may behold the thorny crown, which was only set upon the head of Our Redeemer in order that all the thorns of the world might be gathered together and broken. When Gregory of Tours in De gloria martyri avers that the thorns in the crown still looked green, a fresh
It was one of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus' captors both to cause him pain and to mock his claim of authority. It is mentioned in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John and is often alluded to by the early Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen and others.
In later centuries, relics believed by many to be all or part of the Crown of Thorns have been venerated. For the first four centuries there was no extra-biblical mention of the crown of thorns.
A few writers of the fifth and sixth centuries AD speak of a relic known to be still in existence and venerated by the faithful. St. Paulinus of Nola, writing after 409, refers to the thorns with which Our Saviour was crowned as relics held in honour along with the cross to which he was nailed and the pillar at which he was scourged.
Cassiodorus, when commenting on Psalm lxxxvi, speaks of the crown of thorns among the other relics which are the glory of the earthly Jerusalem. There, he says, we may behold the thorny crown, which was only set upon the head of Our Redeemer in order that all the thorns of the world might be gathered together and broken. When Gregory of Tours in De gloria martyri avers that the thorns in the crown still looked green, a fresh
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