The hero who saved the Crown of Thorns

[Coach is Back!]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927345/Fire-chaplain-helped-Bataclan-victims-entered-burning-Notre-Dame-save-Crown-Thorns-relic.html

[Straw Man]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927345/Fire-chaplain-helped-Bataclan-victims-entered-burning-Notre-Dame-save-Crown-Thorns-relic.html

Too bad it's not the actual crown of thorns (presuming it ever existed)
If it were then it would have blood on it and we'd have Jeebus's DNA.

[tommywishbone]

Yes.  It's a very good story. Unfortunately there's a 1,200 year gap in the "chain of custody" of the crown of thorns.

On a positive note, I once had a super OCD hoarder friend that kept the same REAL Christmas tree in his living room for 6-7 years. It was totally brown, had about 5 needles left on it and smelled like a pencil... but it was recognizeable as a "Christmas tree."  So I suppose a crown of thorns could last 2,000 years. Maybe.

[mphgrove]

Yes.  It's a very good story. Unfortunately there's a 1,200 year gap in the "chain of custody" of the crown of thorns.

On a positive note, I once had a super OCD hoarder friend that kept the same REAL Christmas tree in his living room for 6-7 years. It was totally brown, had about 5 needles left on it and smelled like a pencil... but it was recognizeable as a "Christmas tree."  So I suppose a crown of thorns could last 2,000 years. Maybe.

Personally I think it is very possible that the crown moved people at the time of burial (29 A.D.) and remained with Jesus up until the time St. Louis (King Louis IX of France) went to Jerusalem on his two Crusades (around 1250 which is right about the time the Cathedral was being built). Whether you consider this an act of plunder or an act of protecting relics from the Muslims is where history gets interesting. I find this particular symbol of Jesus’ humility especially moving and understand how Christians who touch the Crown during a Mass at Notre Dame consider this an important moment in their own lives.