The Crusades and Relics in Twenty Objects

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The Crusades and Relics in Twenty Objects

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The “Paris Gregory” was made for Emperor Basil I between 879 and 883, commissioned by the Patriarch Photios I in Constantinople. It contains the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. This illustration shows, at top “the dream of Constantine”, “the battle…

Saint Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine is famous for her supposed discovery of many of the relics of the passion. Herself sainted after death, this relic of her skull is held at Trier Cathedral. The portrait bust shows her holding some of…

Interior of the Limburg Staurotheke. Staurotheke comes from the Greek meaning “container of the cross.” This reliquary was made in Constantinople in the 10th century. It currently resides in Limburg in Germany. The large cross at the center of the…

The Roman Catholic Church holds that this section of the cross (vertical bar measuring 63.5 cm long; cross bar measuring 39.3 cm, with a thickness of 38 mm) is the largest relic of the True Cross. As with all other accepted relics of the True Cross,…

Given by Latin Emperor Baldwin II to King Louis IX of France, among others including the Image of Edessa, arrived in Paris in August 1239 for the sum of 135,000 livres. The Saint-Chapelle was built to house these (pawned) relics from Constantinople,…

Reliquary of the Crown of Thorns, 1862, designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.

Made in Paris circa 1390 for John, Duke of Berry, the reliquary is currently held in the collection of the British Museum. Made of gold, rock crystal, enamel, pearls, sapphires, and rubies, and decorated with intricately carved figures, is represents…

The Image of Edessa or the Mandylion (see image top right), is a relic of a cloth onto which the face of Christ had been imprinted. Not to be confused with other, similar, relics (such as the Veronica veil or the Shroud of Turin), the story of the…

A linen cloth said to bear the image of Christ in the negative. It is claimed to be the cloth in which Christ was wrapped after his death. Measuring at 4.4 x 1.1 meters, the shroud features the front and back impression of a man’s body in a darker…

This icon/image/likeness of Christ is held at the Church of St Bartholomew of the Armenians in Genoa, Italy. It was given to the doge of Genoa in the 14th century by Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos. The outer frame has been dated to the 14th…
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