IOW, the cup has been encased in the gold, trimmed with precious stones. Ping!
That is not the cup of a carpenter!
He chose.........poorly.
" Elsa don't cross the seal. The knight warned us not to take the grail from here!"
The Deacon’s Bench ^ | April 1, 2014 | Deacon Greg Kandra
April 1st works for me...
PING
Jesus’ cup is His teachings, the wine is the grace that flows to a person who follows those teachings.
I have always wondered why anyone believes the cup was even saved. The room was rented. It seems highly unlikely to me that anyone would take the cup along to the Garden, nor does it make sense that any one of the disciples would go back to the room and get it several days later. How would they know which one of a dozen cups, likely all similar clay pottery, would be the cup used by Jesus?
Now it does make perfect sense that the disciples who ran to the tomb did gather up the linen clothes and treasure those over the centuries.
Darn. I thought this was about a ‘59 Les Paul with original PAF’s.
Is it dishwasher safe...
And I thought I was going to come in here and be all clever and make an Indiana Jones/Last Crusade comment. But you all beat me to it. Well played, freepers, well played. You chose wisely.
It could be. The medieval gold trimming and the jewels were added afterward. Underneath, you can see that it’s just a plain ceramic chalice, of the kind used at the time of Jesus.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of this before. However, my faith will neither be strenghtened nor weakened by this story and item.
Oh, yeah, something in use in first century Judea is going to say “GRAIL” on it’s base.
Goblets weren’t used by common folk in 30 AD. The Romans had begun small-scale mass production of decorated pottery preceding that time period using molds and pressed clay.
Christ’s cup was most likely a small red bowl. A stackable, uniformed-sized one like in the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_pottery_South_Gaulish_samian_ware.jpg
Besides, veneration of objects surrounding the life, death, and resurrection of Christ is foolish, in my opinion. It is the very fact that He lived, died, and rose again, and why He did it, that we should celebrate, not a splinter of wood, a piece of cloth, or an old cup.
Sir Robin: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I’m not afraid.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your name?
Sir Robin: Sir Robin of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
Sir Robin: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is the capital of Assyria?
[pause]
Sir Robin: I don’t know that.
[he is thrown over the edge into the volcano]
Sir Robin: Auuuuuuuugh.
(Sorry, I just couldn’t resist...)
http://www.valenciavalencia.com/sights-guide/holy-grail-valencia.htm
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6985
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features/jbennett_part1_oct04.asp
Bing "Valencia Holy Grail" or "St. Lawrence Holy Grail" for more articles.
I'm a skeptic, but among claimed "Holy Grails," the one from Valencia has the best backstory. It's made of agate and is similar to agate cups from Jerusalem, dating 1-50 AD, exhibited in the British Museum.
Some scholars claim that porous cups, such as wood or pottery, were forbidden for use at Passover because they could not be "clean."
Just some random thoughts.
I am always skeptical of relics;Gibbon reported enough claimed pieces of “The True Cross” to make a sizable wooden fleet. There has always been lots of relics to stimulate donations by poor souls.
