#10: The Pillar of Scourging
Brought to Rome from Jerusalem in 1223 by Cardinal Giovanni Colonna during the Crusades, the Pillar of Scourging is a short column of black-and-white marble, which is kept in the Basilica of Santa Prassede. Tradition holds that Christ was bound to this very stone while being whipped by Roman soldiers, making it a solemn focal point of mid-century Lenten devotions in Italy.
