Valencia Spain

The Holy Grail of VALENCIA SPAIN

This precious object has always been at the center of fantastic stories and novels

like the legend of the Knights Document regarding the reception of the Holy Chalice in of the Round Table in the Cathedral of Valencia in 1437 England, the stories of Perceval in France and Text of the notation written by Parzival in Germany of the John Ribera in which he certifies that “till now the Holy Chalice John Paul II kisses Twelfth - Thirteenth century. is preserved in our Cathedral” the Holy Grail of Valencia This genre was used by Wagner in a Christian-esoteric perspective and at the end of the twentieth century The Holy Chalice of Valencia the fantastic novels of B. Cornwell favored the birth of the editorial trend still alive today.

Route traveled by the Holy Chalice

The Last Supper. Juan de Juarez. Prado Museum (Madrid) Cathedral of Valencia

he Holy Grail of Valencia is the chalice used According to the account of Arculo, a French portions: the inverted upper part of a cornelian by Jesus in his Last Supper with the bishop who lived in the Holy Land in 720 a. C., chalice constitutes the base, the stem is enriched Apostles to consecrate and offer the the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by precious stones and the upper part is a cup, Eucharistic wine, that is his blood, but it has also was preserving the chalice in which the Lord also of cornelian. These parts are attributed to been identified as the cup in which Joseph of himself consecrated his own blood. different eras; the cup is the most antique and the Arimathea collected the blood of Jesus on the Cross. most difficult to date and constitutes the most adds that the interesting part. On the base there is an inscription T The venerable Bede There are a number of variants to indicate the cup was protected by a net and it could be in Arabic of disputed interpretation, but that Grail: San Greal, Holy Grail, Sangreal in touched and kissed through an opening. No could be another proof to determine the date. England, Sanct Graal and Saint Graal in the one knows exactly when the chalice was taken According to professor Salvador Antunano, antique and modern French, Gral and Graal in from Jerusalem, most probably as far back as “When we know the mystery of the chalice of the German. The “grolla” of the Aostan valley is the seventh century. Today in the gothic chapel Holy Grail we realize that in it there is nothing lexically related to the grail and similar to the of the “Santo Caliz” (the “Holy Chalice”) in the enigmatic or esoteric. The history of this precious Latin gradalis o gratalis, “vase” or glass. city’s cathedral, a miraculous chalice, identified chalice concerns The most dramatic, most by tradition as the Holy Grail, is kept and sublime episode ever lived by humanity: From many sources we know that a few centuries shown to the veneration of the faithful. the history of the Word made man and after the death of Christ the Holy Grail was being Eucharist”. shown to Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem. This precious item is made up by different