The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry발음듣기
The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry
This is the Holy Thorn Reliquary it houses one of the most important relics of all time a thorn from the crown of thorns that was put on Christ's head during the Crucifixion.발음듣기
The Holy Thorn Reliquary is a one foot high theatre made of solid gold and encrusted with jewels.발음듣기
In it we watch the terrifying drama of the end of the world the day in which we along with all the other dead will be raised and will face judgment.발음듣기
At the bottom as the angels blow their trumpets at the Earth's imagined corners graves open on an enamel hillside of vivid green.발음듣기
Far above them at the very top of the reliquary sits God the father enthroned in judgment among radiant gold and precious gems.발음듣기
For medieval Christians the only hope of escaping the torments of hell lay in the redeeming blood that Christ had shed.발음듣기
At the very center of the reliquary is Christ showing us his wounds and here just below him before your very eyes and only inches away from you is one of the long needle-like thorns that caused that holy blood to flow reads the enamel label "This is a thorn from the crown of our Lord Jesus Christ"발음듣기
It is I think impossible to exaggerate how powerfully this object would affect anyone kneeling in front of it.발음듣기
The blood drawn by this worthless thorn will save immortal souls and so nothing earthly can be too precious for it.발음듣기
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