>Saint King Louis IX hears the Crown of Thorns is available in 1239
>Pays 135,000 livres for it
>Roughly half the kingdom’s annual income at the time
>Personally carries the relic into Paris barefoot as a penitent
>Then builds Sainte-Chapelle to house it
>800 years later Popes still venerate it in the Church he built for it.
The Catholic Church has unfathomable aura.
FRANCE 🇫🇷
Pope Leo XIV kissing the Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus Christ during the crucifixion