Stanbrook Abbey
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Stanbrook Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Wass, North Yorkshire, England. The Roman Catholic community was founded in 1625 at Cambrai in Flanders, under the auspices of the English Benedictine Congreg
Stanbrook Abbey Church in Wass, North Yorkshire
Stanbrook Abbey, Wass, North Yorkshire
Dame Catherine Gascoigne
Former Stanbrook Abbey main building in Worcestershire. Entrance to right, sacristy to left, with presbytery in distance.
Crown of thorns
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According to the New Testament, a woven crown of thorns was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to his crucifixion. It was one of the instruments of the Passion, employed by Jesus
Stanbrook Abbey
…to the south side of the church by Peter Paul Pugin, in the style of a medieval pilgrimage shrine, and housed the Holy Thorn, which was a relic of the crown of thorns from Glastonbury Abbey (not to be confused with the Glastonbury Thorn, which was a tree). Laurence Shepherd was buried here in 1885 and Abbess Gertrude…
Christ carrying the cross with the crown of thorns, as painted by El Greco, c. 1580s
A purported relic of the Crown of Thorns, received by the French King Louis IX from Emperor Baldwin II.
from the Karlsruhe Passion, c. 1450-55
Nuremberg 16th-century silver medal of Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns by Valentin Maler.