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On February 12, 2022, in conclusion of the events marking the sixth anniversary of the meeting of Pope Francis with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in Havana, a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church led by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited the church of St. Germain l’Auxerrois and venerated the Crown of Thorns of the Saviour brought here for a special occasion.

This relic of the Christian world has been kept at the Louvre museum since the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral and is being brought to the neighboring St.Germain church for special purposes.

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