This collection of shimmering but empty 19th-century reliquaries (containers for holy relics) included a bejewelled but transparent casket for the Crown of Thorns. While the reliquaries ... to an ...

FILE - The crown of thorns relic believed to have been worn by Jesus Christ is displayed on the altar during a Good Friday veneration at the St Germain l'Auxerrois church in Paris, Friday ...

An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” is returning to Notre Dame, five years after it was saved from the flames of the cathedral’s devastating ...

A new theory explains how juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (commonly known as starfish) can destabilize coral reefs. The 'degraded reef framework' explains how the loss of live coral ...

This collection of shimmering but empty 19th-century reliquaries (containers for holy relics) included a bejewelled but transparent casket for the Crown of Thorns. While the reliquaries were ...

PARIS — An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” returned Friday to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, five years after it was saved from the flames of ...

The crown is still enclosed in its golden reliquary (designed in 1896) but now the sacred circlet glows in contrast to an ultramarine-blue background. It evokes the blue and gold aesthetic of the ...

PARIS (AP) — An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” returned Friday to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, five years after it was saved from the ...