The relic that many Christians believe is the “Crown of Thorns” that Jesus Christ wore returned to Notre Dame in Paris after it was rescued from the cathedral’s 2019 fire. The relic that ...

Some people are labeling it an affront to the figure of Christ and others have been ... Salustiano García Cruz shows a fresh-faced Jesus without a crown of thorns, no suffering face and miniscule ...

The crown is one of many objects associated with the passion of Christ (the story of Jesus’s arrest, trial and crucifixion). The Gospels state that a group of Roman soldiers wrapped Christ in a ...

A lot of my research involves examining relics from Jesus’s final days. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with some of the custodians of the sacred objects at Notre Dame.