Comments on: The Holy Grail of Blogs http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Fri, 18 May 2012 22:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: MH http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-33 MH Tue, 09 May 2006 18:06:44 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-33 Loyola Press reprinted The Silver Chalice. I second that it is a great book! Loyola Press reprinted The Silver Chalice. I second that it is a great book!

]]> By: Christian Nerland http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-31 Christian Nerland Tue, 09 May 2006 01:27:13 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-31 What do you think of Jessie Weston's theory? She says that we can still find the Grail. What do you think of Jessie Weston’s theory? She says that we can still find the Grail.

]]> By: Clare Krishan http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-13 Clare Krishan Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:18:57 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-13 The Santa Caliz is a relic as precious as the Longinus Spear at the Vatican that is only venerated once a year www.valencity.es/img/fscaliz.jpg If you are lucky your local public television station may broadcast Werner Boote's film “Parsifal – Indiana Jones and Richard Wagner” "a documentary on the new production of 'Parsifal' at the Vienna State Opera in April 2004. It led the director to Spain, where he went in an adventuresome search of the real Holy Grail precisely at Eastertide, when the Spanish nights are brightened by impressive processions. In the fortified monastery of San Juan de la Peňa he finds Wagner’s Gralsburg, he meets the “Caballeros del Santo Caliz”, who on Maundy Thursday, the day of the Last Supper, reveal him the relic of the Last Supper chalice." DVD @ www.opera-quests.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=228135 The chalice is like this one at the National Gallery of Art - its a semiprecious carved stone cup set in a Gold neck-stem-pedestal www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/medieval/medieval-1443.0.html (shame that relics that held the Precious Blodd collect dust in Museums but that's a different story for a different blog posting) The Santa Caliz is a relic as precious as the Longinus Spear at the Vatican that is only venerated once a year

http://www.valencity.es/img/fscaliz.jpg

If you are lucky your local public television station may broadcast Werner Boote’s film

“Parsifal – Indiana Jones and Richard Wagner”

“a documentary on the new production of ‘Parsifal’ at the Vienna State Opera in April 2004. It led the director to Spain, where he went in an adventuresome search of the real Holy Grail precisely at Eastertide, when the Spanish nights are brightened by impressive processions. In the fortified monastery of San Juan de la Peňa he finds Wagner’s Gralsburg, he meets the “Caballeros del Santo Caliz”, who on Maundy Thursday, the day of the Last Supper, reveal him the relic of the Last Supper chalice.”

DVD @ http://www.opera-quests.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=228135

The chalice is like this one at the National Gallery of Art - its a semiprecious carved stone cup set in a Gold neck-stem-pedestal

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/medieval/medieval-1443.0.html

(shame that relics that held the Precious Blodd collect dust in Museums but that’s a different story for a different blog posting)

]]> By: Ian http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-12 Ian Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:03:43 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-12 There is a recent book called St. Laurence and the Holy Grail that addresses these other stories. http://www.aquinasandmore.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/store.ItemDetails/SKU/19267/ There is a recent book called St. Laurence and the Holy Grail that addresses these other stories.
http://www.aquinasandmore.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/store.ItemDetails/SKU/19267/

]]> By: Fr. Raphael http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-10 Fr. Raphael Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:12:20 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-10 if anyone's looking for a novel about the grail - and I don't consider Dan Brown's plagerism (no matter what the British courts decided)to be that - try Thomas Costain's "The Silver Chalice" (1952). It's a great read and much better researched than most of the tripe available today. if anyone’s looking for a novel about the grail - and I don’t consider Dan Brown’s plagerism (no matter what the British courts decided)to be that - try Thomas Costain’s “The Silver Chalice” (1952). It’s a great read and much better researched than most of the tripe available today.

]]> By: Elaine T http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-9 Elaine T Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:27:45 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-9 Some years back I went through a "Grail" period and read a lot of the legends, ancient & modern. What I never found, but did a few weeks back was the claim that Christ's cup from the Last Supper was indeed preserved, taken to Rome by St. Peter, and from there sent by St. Lawrence just before his matyrdom to Spain where it has been ever since, in a monastery in the Pyreenees (sp?). The Pyrenees have been popular in modern Grail legends, but I hadn't come across this particular wrinkle before. The book even had photos and documentary evidence of sorts, mostly in translation of old Spanish and Latin docs. It even seemed plausbile. Especially compared to the HOly Blood Holy Grail type garbage. Some years back I went through a “Grail” period and read a lot of the legends, ancient & modern. What I never found, but did a few weeks back was the claim that Christ’s cup from the Last Supper was indeed preserved, taken to Rome by St. Peter, and from there sent by St. Lawrence just before his matyrdom to Spain where it has been ever since, in a monastery in the Pyreenees (sp?). The Pyrenees have been popular in modern Grail legends, but I hadn’t come across this particular wrinkle before. The book even had photos and documentary evidence of sorts, mostly in translation of old Spanish and Latin docs.

It even seemed plausbile. Especially compared to the HOly Blood Holy Grail type garbage.

]]> By: Pauli http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-7 Pauli Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:21:32 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-7 Coooool. I'm going to bang coconuts together whilst I read this blog. Har, har. Coooool. I’m going to bang coconuts together whilst I read this blog. Har, har.

]]> By: NB http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-6 NB Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:16:00 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-holy-grail-of-blogs#comment-6 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holy_grails" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> has a list of the "holy grails" of just about every subject... :D Wikipedia has a list of the “holy grails” of just about every subject… :D

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