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 ...

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 ...

Treasures of Heaven: a reliquary bust of an unknown female saint, c. 1520-1530. Credit: Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, relics and ...

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 Towel Of Jesus - otherwise known as the Mandylion Of Edessa - is normally kept at the Pope's private chapel in the Vatican. But the British Museum ... such as a reliquary said to contain ...

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 ...

A Javanese shadow puppet, a holy thorn reliquary, a ceremonial ballgame belt from Mexico, a credit card — the museum is catholic ... was a bit of a gap for the British tummy between lunchtime ...