Description: This member of the milkweed or spurge family grows neatly in a pot and brings strong red-family color to the winter garden. A spiny shrub much like a succulent, it grows slowly to 4 ...

Because the thorns had merely been stuck through the straw bands to begin with, they either remained embedded in the crucified man's neck when the crown was removed, or they fell out later.

Scourging was a recognized Roman punishment. The crowning with thorns was a sadistic game. The Sanhedrin’s true motive in attempting to kill Jesus was his claim to divinity, which they deemed ...

In the year 409AD, a Roman poet Paulinus of Nola wrote about “the thorns with which Our Saviour was crowned” being held, along with the cross and the pillar on which he was scourged.

The Gospels state that a group of Roman soldiers wrapped Christ in a purple (or scarlet) robe, forced a reed sceptre in his hand and placed a Crown of Thorns on his head, mocking him as the ...

The body of a man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head has been found in an abandoned stone quarry, South Korean police said Wednesday.

The most exciting episode is probably the first, which addresses the near-cataclysmic 2019 conflagration at Notre Dame, during which the Crown of Thorns—which, tradition tells us, was placed by ...