March 28, 2024 / 03:54 PM
The crown of thorns that Christ had to endure during his Passion is one of the most venerated relics by the faithful in the world, as is a fragment of the True Cross and one of the nails with which the Son of God was crucified. Here we tell you its origin.
The crowning with thorns was one of the tortures that Jesus Christ suffered during his Passion, an event that we meditate on in the third painful mystery and that describe in the Gospel of Saint Matthew.
“Then the procurator’s soldiers took Jesus with them to the praetorium and gathered the entire cohort around him. They stripped him naked and threw a purple cloak over him and, braiding a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and in his right hand a reed, and bending their knee before him, they mocked him saying: ‘Hail, King. of the Jews’.”