Newsroom | June 21, 2016
Oferta Especial
A research team consisting of a pair of Spanish historians, Margarita Torres and Jose Miguel Ortega, published last March a very interesting book: “The kings of the Grail.”
A text that contains a comprehensive scientific research, which has been carried out over three years, and has gone virtually unnoticed.
This research supposed to show that the Holy Grail, “the cup that Christian community of Jerusalem in the 11th century considered to be the chalice of Christ, is treasured in our days in the Basilica of San Isidoro.”
As Margarita Torres, expert in medieval history and the co-author of the book explains: “This discovery is backed by another major discovery, two original Egyptians scrolls.”
Dating back to 1054, the scrolls clearly indicate that the chalice was brought to the king of Leon, Fernando el Grande (the Great), after being ransacked from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, where it had been guarded since the fourth century.
These documents demonstrate, in an “undoubtedly” way, that this chalice was given to him as a recognition, after the monarch from Leon sent a very large shipment of provisions to Egypt in a “year of great famine.”
“Our research shows, therefore, that the real cup, which was considered the Holy Grail for the Christian community of the eleventh century, is kept in the city of Leon,” says the author.
“What is unknown is what happened to the cup before that time, the year 400 AD,” said co-author of the work, Jose Miguel Ortega, who explains: “There is not documentation for that particular epoch” but highlighting the enormous importance of this finding, because “none of the other alleged holy grails have such a solid base on which to stand.”
Another evidence to support the thesis of these two historians would be the fact that during the transfer of the relic to Leon, a part of it came off from the chalice. Fragment, which also lacks the chalice, known as “Chalice of Infanta Doña Urraca,” the famous daughter of Fernando I the Great, which is located since the eleventh century in the Basilica of San Isidoro, Spain.
In addition, the dating of the cup, that was made using a complex study of its typology, has shown that belongs to the period between the first century BC and the I AD, what would match the historical moment in which it is believed that Jesus used the Holy Grail.
“This is a huge puzzle, in which now fit the pieces that were previously disjointed” adds Ortega del Río, which recognizes that “there are still many unanswered questions” about this matter, but is confident that after this first finding, “further researches occur that could complete it.”
The building Botines of Leon, hosted the presentation of “The kings of the Grail,” sponsored by the Foundation Monteleón. Its president, Jose Manuel Fernandez del Corral said that the work “deserves the full support of our institution for its great historical contributions and involvement with city of Leon.”
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