纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 066圣荆棘之匣（7）（在线收听）

Certainly the veneration of the Crown of Thorns remains very much alive. It was Napoleon who decided that it should be housed permanently in Notre Dame, and there, on the first Friday of every month, the whole Crown of Thorns, from which our one thorn was taken over six hundred years ago, is still shown to crowds of faithful worshippers.

In the next programme we're still in the world of sacred Christian objects, we're in Constantinople, not with a relic but with an icon. We'll be with a beautiful and revered image that, astonishingly, is about whether or not there should be images at all... it's the painting of a holy row.

对荆棘冠本身的崇敬则一直延续至今。拿破仑曾下令将其永久收藏在巴黎圣母院。现在，每个月的第一个星期五，整个荆棘冠—一我们的荆棘刺便是六百年前取自其上的—一仍会被展示在信徒面前，以供祈祷。