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For Richand Wagner and Steven Spiclberg, the
Holy Grail is a cup for those the fall of
Jerusalem in 70 An, it was a book writen by
Jesus for early European Christians, it wasa
eliquary containing the forearms of the Vingin
Mary and Mary Magdalene for the coetem-
porary French, it is a gpy cul
Now, for the first time, Nor ma Lorre
Goodrich traces the history and legend of the
Holy Grail, stripping away all the fctions and
myths that have acerued around this evocative
treasure to bring us the true, historical facts of
one of the most venerated of Christian objects.
From the goddess and priestess era of the
proto-Christians throgh the rise and fall of the
Knights Templar, the era of King Arthur and
Merlin, and the massacres of the Crusades and
the Inquisition, to present-day worship in the
Languedoc region of France, The Holy Grail
weaves a magnificent tale of the bistory of reli-
gions and nations.
The Holy Grail defined a world where mira-
cles occurred: a world that shunned crass mate-
rialism and drew an ondınary person up from
his painful everyday life. Knowledge of the
Grail was a quest everyone cold, in imitation
of his royal lords, kings, and great queens,
undertake quith, silently, and hambly Bringing
together worshipers of the disciple John with
followers of the Talmad, the Grail quest recon-
ciled the majesty of deity with the misery of
humanity establishing an aristocracy of the spi-
it and peoviding worshipers with a nobler vision
than that of wat poverty, and daily existence.
Worship of the Grail stressed sacrifice, cour
tess duty, care of the poor, and idealization of
women (or chivalry) This code of chivalry
wocked a fuasion between religious teachings and
idealism and the Holy Grail gave generations an
eal of purity and holiness to strive toward
and if necessarg die fo.
But what eactly was the Grail The ship and
alar of Peroevab Jeua p from he Last Supper?