Posted on 03/31/2014 6:43:57 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Because Rome controlled the area and had quite a few products there?
Re-read my post #38. Within that post lies the answer to your question.
I’m not certain that Jesus would have been a Big Fan of.... nor been likely to to have used a Roman Cup.
Reading comprehension helps, unless you’re being intentionally obtuse and ignoring everyone who has pointed you to the relevant statements.
“The documents, written in Arabic, reportedly say that Muslims stole the chalice from Jerusalem and that it was given to Christians in Egypt. Then, they claim it was somehow sent to King Fernando I of Castile as a gift, disguised with jewels and other adornments.”
Regardless of the veracity of the researchers’ claims, if you’d bothered to read anything posted here or acknowledge the several people that pointed out your error, you would have realized that the gold and jewels were added, according to the researchers, a thousand years after the cup was created.
I don’t see how your statements could possibly do anything other than make you appear rather dense.
They might have found the cup used for the last supper but they still haven’t found the cup used in the first breakfast.
Wait until they bring out the holy hand grenade...
The true Holy Grail is the Sancta Caliz, brought to Spain by St. Lawrence in the early 4th century. And yes, it is a simple bowl-shaped vessel made of agate (semi-precious stone, something a middle-class family would cherish as a hand-me-down, but hardly extravagant). The adornments, including a jeweled, golden stem, were later additions. Although it fell into the hands of Muslims for a few centuries, it was never lost. The legend of it magically granting eternal life was an Islamic misunderstanding of the halo that appeared around it in ancient French paintings (where “graal” means “chalice”), and Catholic doctrine about the resurrection. (Halos in Islam signify magical charms.)
He may not have been a fan, but he may not have thought of bringing his own cup to the Seder at Passover. He may have just used what was there.
Mr. Locke
Wants to talk
About a sock
With a hole in it.
Obviously part of the later additions.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land,
through the kingdom of Mercea, through—
SOLDIER #1: Where’d you get the coconuts?
ARTHUR: We found them.
SOLDIER #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut’s tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
SOLDIER #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the
plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to
our land?
SOLDIER #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.
SOLDIER #1: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
SOLDIER #1: It’s not a question of where he grips it! It’s a simple question
of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn’t matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur
from the Court of Camelot is here.
SOLDIER #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs
to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
SOLDIER #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I’m not interested!
SOLDIER #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
SOLDIER #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.
That’s my point.
SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
SOLDIER #1: But then of course a— African swallows are non-migratory.
SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah...
SOLDIER #1: So they couldn’t bring a coconut back anyway...
[clop clop clop]
SOLDIER #2: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
SOLDIER #1: No, they’d have to have it on a line.
SOLDIER #2: Well, simple! They’d just use a strand of creeper!
SOLDIER #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
SOLDIER #2: Well, why not?
why would any devout JEW have been in the possession of a Roman Cup?
disguised with jewels? Plausible? what would there reason for DISGUISING a cup have been
It would have been far FAR easier to HIDE it....Id think
Can’t be.
Look at the state that Egypt is in these days....
/s
;-)
Thought for sure someone was gonna ding me on that comment
LOL.
Did they find it on Bigfoot’s table in the UFO?
This isn’t news to me. A few years ago David Rohl, an archaeologist and songwriter, revived Mandalaband, the progressive rock band he had with his college buddies back in the 1970s. In 2011 they produced their fourth album, “A.D.: Sangreal,” which promotes the theory that the Holy Grail is in Spain. I’m guessing they’re talking about the same grail as the one here.
“Oh yes, it’s a very nice!”
Everyone knows that the French already have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs
or do they .......
Anyone tried drinking from this yet (or are they afraid of turning into dust)?
Just kidding.
I did watch The Last Crusade a few days ago though..
If this still exists it would be an interesting artifact, but Jesus, Himself is our Living Water, we don’t need a medieval fantasy.
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