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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Doesn’t look like the Cup of a Jewish carpenter ...
Lol...I can hear Indiana Jones voice saying “yeah, that’s a cup a carptenter is going to have on his table...”
“It’s only a model...”
Fechez la vache
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.
Actually under the jewels it says Git-R-Done.
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.
[kidding]
see post 27 for the best detail of the photo I could find.
thats NOT hebrew lettering
Roman Yes Hebrew Nope!
ahahahah LOVE IT!
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.
were it indeed The Cup...who in their right mind would have decorated it?
I got a gas one out on my deck
“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?
Was it in the Castle Anthrax?
On the bottom: “Made in China”
Well, knowing Christ “according to the Spirit” isn’t easy.
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