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' Porcupine , from Latin, is a `pig with thorns.
In 1239, there was the procession of Louis IX, barefoot, carrying his holy treasure, Jesus’s Crown of Thorns (now in the Sainte-Chapelle); in 1430, it saw the humiliation of Henry VI of England (he was crowned King of France here; see page 15).
First a young hairdresser in Stigmata collapses on a crowded dance floor as an invisible crown of thorns is pounded into her head.
The wrought-iron Crown of Thorns canopy over the high altar (called the Baldachino) was added by the Catalan modernista architect Antoni Gaudí at the beginning of the 20th century.
Both were portrayed as thorns in the side of the royal family.