One can rationalize this as honouring the holy contents. But the Duke who owned the reliquary ... to the British Museum come to admire the container and not reverence the thorn, but one suspects ...

It's a paradox that we see at its most extreme in the Holy Thorn Reliquary, now held here at the British Museum. The Holy Thorn Reliquary is a one-foot (30 cm) -high theatre, made of solid gold ...

It's a paradox that we see at its most extreme in the Holy Thorn Reliquary, now held here at the British Museum. The Holy Thorn Reliquary is a one-foot (30 cm) -high theatre, made of solid gold ...

The light has been kept deliberately low in the galleries chosen for this show, within the central reading room of the old British Library ... The first is a Holy Thorn reliquary created in ...

The Holy Thorn Reliquary, c.1400, containing one of the most revered medieval relics, went on display yesterday in a new gallery, funded by the Rothschild Foundation, in Waddesdon Manor, ...

The thorn is placed in a chapel at Stonyhurst every year in Holy Week.' The British Museum exhibition features sacred treasures of the medieval age, which have been collected from more than 40 ...

The Holy Thorn Reliquary (c.1350, gold, jewels and enamel, Paris) 67 was built to showcase what was believed to be one of the thorns placed on Christ’s head. The Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy (c.

“The thorn is placed in a chapel at Stonyhurst every year in Holy Week.” The British Museum exhibition features some of the finest sacred treasures of the medieval age, which have been ...