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Historians’ Explosive Claim: They’ve Found the Holy Grail
The Blaze ^ | 31 March 2014 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 03/31/2014 6:43:57 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

Spanish historians claim they’ve discovered the 2,000-year-old Holy Chalice, the biblical cup that Jesus Christ used during the Last Supper.

Margarita Torres, a medieval history lecturer at León University and Jose Ortiza del Rio, an art historian, penned a new book claiming that years of research has led them to conclude that Christ’s chalice is somehow inside a medieval goblet that has been on display in Spain for 1,000 years, Daily Mail reported.

Residing inside the Basilica of San Isidoro, a church in Spain that is located on the site of an ancient Roman temple, the goblet — known as the Infanta Dona Urraca — belonged to Queen Urraca, who died in A.D. 1126.

Historians Explosive Claim: Theyve Found the Holy Grail Two employees of of the museum and a guest (L) watch what was known until now as the goblet of the Infanta Dona Urraca — daughter of Fernando I, King of Leon from 1037 to 1065 — in the museum of the Basilica of San Isidoro in Leon, northern Spain on March 31, 2014.

Torres and del Rio’s theory, which they document in their new book, “The Kings of the Grail,” certainly seems wild, though the two say they have evidence from two Egyptian scrolls that corroborates their claims.

Unveiling their findings last Wednesday, the two explained that they found documents referencing the chalice at Cairo’s University of al-Azhar while researching the history if Islamic remains at the Basilica of San Isidoro, the Irish Times reported.

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.

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To: JoeProBono

Doesn’t look like the Cup of a Jewish carpenter ...


21 posted on 03/31/2014 7:06:52 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Fractal Trader
Holy Grail photo: Magician MontyPython_theHolyGrail_Magician.jpg
22 posted on 03/31/2014 7:08:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: JoeProBono

Lol...I can hear Indiana Jones voice saying “yeah, that’s a cup a carptenter is going to have on his table...”


23 posted on 03/31/2014 7:09:53 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Fractal Trader

“It’s only a model...”


24 posted on 03/31/2014 7:11:12 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: stboz

Fechez la vache


25 posted on 03/31/2014 7:11:15 PM PDT by stboz
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To: tanknetter

It might not, if this is the vessel used at the Last Supper. That was a room which had been prepared for them which would have included the dishes.

Some people might anticipate magical things from this cup and if so they’ve quite missed the point of Christ. Christ came as Savior, not Stuntman.


26 posted on 03/31/2014 7:11:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Fractal Trader
about to come out of retirement to celebrate this "find"//...



those letters dont look like HEBREW to me..
27 posted on 03/31/2014 7:12:59 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Caipirabob

Actually under the jewels it says Git-R-Done.


28 posted on 03/31/2014 7:13:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: MeshugeMikey; tanknetter

While I think their claim is not credible (and their argument has an obvious logical flaw), their claim is that the plain polished stone cup underneath the gold and jewel setting is the original, and that the setting is a much later decoration.


29 posted on 03/31/2014 7:13:45 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Caipirabob

[kidding]


30 posted on 03/31/2014 7:14:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

see post 27 for the best detail of the photo I could find.

thats NOT hebrew lettering

Roman Yes Hebrew Nope!


31 posted on 03/31/2014 7:14:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

ahahahah LOVE IT!


32 posted on 03/31/2014 7:14:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: wideawake

That seems possible. We might never know what happened to the Grail. Maybe the Lord zapped it back to heaven to be on His memento shelf, for all we know. The meaning of Christ was symbolized by the grail.


33 posted on 03/31/2014 7:15:38 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: wideawake

were it indeed The Cup...who in their right mind would have decorated it?


34 posted on 03/31/2014 7:16:17 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: AlbertWang

I got a gas one out on my deck


35 posted on 03/31/2014 7:17:24 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“those letters dont look like HEBREW to me..”

Those letters look Latin. Why back then would they put hebrew letters in a cup that only the romans could produce?


36 posted on 03/31/2014 7:17:57 PM PDT by Finalmente
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To: MeshugeMikey; Caipirabob
A Humble Redneck I Was Born
37 posted on 03/31/2014 7:18:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Was it in the Castle Anthrax?


38 posted on 03/31/2014 7:18:29 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: JoeProBono

On the bottom: “Made in China”


39 posted on 03/31/2014 7:19:11 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well, knowing Christ “according to the Spirit” isn’t easy.


40 posted on 03/31/2014 7:19:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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