crown of thorns

As the flames of every disaster fade, stories emerge about heroes and this is again the case in Paris where a brave French priest not only attended to the wounded after the Notre-Dame cathedral fire, but he saved the ‘Blessed Sacrament and the Crown of Thorns’ when he fearlessly entered the inferno. Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade, stood watching as the 800-year-old religious super-structure bellowed smoke into the Paris skies and began fearing that both priceless religious artifacts would be lost to the raging flames. Etienne Loraillere, an editor for France’s KTO Catholic television network, reported that “Fournier went with the firefighters into Notre Dame Cathedral to save the Crown of Thorns and the Blessed Sacrament”. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"59301","attributes":{"alt":"Jean-Marc