medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Isn't this a matter of perception ?
The part standing in for the whole ?
Modern Bishops and Museum curators - at lest in the soi-disant Western
World - consider they have an obligation to respect the integrity of the
objects in their care but even as recently as the 19th C it wasn't the case.
For example, while waiting for the Cemetery of Pere Lachaise to be ready,
the (presumed) bones of Abelard and Heloise were hanging about ( in a box of
some sort ?) in the office of one M. Alexandre Lenoir the then Director of
the Paris Museums. If he had a visitor he wanted to impress, he dipped into
the container and gave his guest a bone fragment or two ....
Any place claiming to have "the relics" of anything almost certainly doesn't
have the WHOLE thing whether Crown or Skelly, just a bit broken off ....
And something like a Crown of Thorns could easily be subdivided, and one
spine mounted in something crown shaped for display .... And so on.
Multiple locations are not a problem!
BMC
And having said that, only a few years ago a shoulderblade from among the
bones inside the reliquary of St Alban in St Panteleon's, Cologne was sent
to the (Church of England) Cathedral & Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St
Albans to be installed in the restored mediaeval shrine.......
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From: "Dr Jim Bugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:27 AM
Subject: [M-R] Crown of Thorns
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear Abby,
> Everybody knows that Louis IX obtained the Crown of Thorns from
> Constantinople in the mid-13th century. So, why do I keep coming across
> references to a Crown of Thorns at the abbey of Saint-Denis in the early
> 12th century? Perplexed
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