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Although Our Savior's Crown of Thorns is mentioned by three Evangelists and is often referred to by the early Christian Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and others, there are comparatively few writers of the first six centuries who speak of it as a relic known to be still in existence and venerated by the faithful. It is remarkable that St. Jerome, who preaches upon the Cross, the Title, and the Nails discovered by St. Helena, says nothing either of the Lance or of the Crown of Thorns, and the silence of Andrea of Crete in the eighth century is even more surprising. Still there are some exceptions. St. Pauline of Nola, writing after 409, refers to "the thorns with which Our Savior was crowned" as relics held in honor along with the Cross to which He was nailed and the pillar at which He was scourged. Cassiodorus, when commenting on Psalm 86, speaks of the Crown of Thorns among the other relics which are the glory of the earthly Jerusalem.