Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 492
ee in which as many as a hundred thousand pilgrims a dayformerly took part; and, lastly, we must mention the most renowned of thosesanctuaries of Notre-Dame des Neiges (Our Lady of the Snow) which are tobe met with on many mountains whose summits are covered with snow—namely, the magnificent… … Fig. 305.—The Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus Christ, preserved at N otre-Dame, Paris.—It iscomposed of a ring-of small reeds tied into a bundle (diameter, 21 centimetres inside); thethorns arc no longer visible; it is enshrined in gold, and held together by three acanthusleaves, also in gold.—Drawn…
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