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Quest for the Holy Grail Quest for the Holy Grail Continued from Page 25 There are other claimants. The Templeisen, who guarded the Grail in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, have been identified with the Knights Templar, warrior order founded in 1118. The order was dispersed, and many of the knights executed, early in the 14th century, but much of their wealth was never recovered. During the last 200 years, many people have claimed to be the inheritors of the Templar tradition and to know their secrest, and some have even said that they knew the whereabouts of the Holy Grail itself. But without some solid evidence these are empty claims. Recently, in France, it has been suggested that the word Sangreal (as the Holy Grail appears in some early manuscripts) should be read as sang real (royal blood) and that the reference is to the descendants of the Frankish Merovingian kings, whose line died out in A.D. 752, or even to those of the blood of the family of Christ. In 1190, just as the first tale of the Grail was being written, the monks of Glastonbury dropped the lance. The tales of the spear’s were hurriedly buried in a specially constructed claimed to have found the grave of Arthur, but magical powers grew as it passed through the vault. the bones that they excavated have been long hands of Saxon and Hohenstauffen rulers. It was Six months later, the American Seventh lost. Today, in the museum in the town, there is possessed for a while by Frederick Barbarossa, Army surrounded the city and, after four days of a bronze bowl, small but beautifully made, and son of the Hohenstauffen dynasty, Holy Roman formidable bombardment, eventually took neatly decorated with a circle of studs. It is emperor, and conqueror of Italy. Barbarossa met possession. On April 30, 1945, the lance was clearly a ceremonial object, not a domestic one, discovered in its underground chamber and and it is believed to have been used in rituals by seized in the name of the U.S. government. It is the lake dwellers who had their settlement thought that it was on that same evening, a few nearby. Could this really be the Holy Grail? It hundred miles away, in his bunker in Berlin, remains overwhelmingly probable that the that Hitler put a pistol to his head and shot sacred chalice is only an object of Myth. himself. [] Hitler and the Lance LOOK WHO CAN BE FOUND IN THE ‘X’ ZONE DIRECTORY OF WHO’S WHO Like the legendary Holy Grail, the spear of Longinus is said to date Addabbo, Nunzio; Alten, Steve; Bahti, Tani; Balthaser, Dennis G; Bartz, Carolyn; Bassett, Stephen; Battros, from the time of the Crucifixion and Mitch; Becker, Rochelle; Belitz, Friar Justin, OFM; Bille, Matthew A; Bishop, Dr Jo Anne PhD, MPA; Blaze, is traditionally believed to hold the Chrissie; Bloom, Howard; Braschler, Von; Cameron, key to untold powers. To many Tilde; Campione, David; Chapman, Jim; Clark, Daniel; Clear, Constance; Colombo, John Robert; Cornet, Dr. notorious leaders throughout history the same fate as Charlemagne:he dropped the Bruce; Crowe, Ray; Davenport, Marc; deAngelis, Dr. Angela; De Long, Douglas; Didier, Matthew James; its possession has always been lance as he crossed a stream and died just Doyle, Patricia; Druffel, Ann; Durante, Georgia; Elder, Paul; Ellis, Ralph; Firoda, Tina; Flowers, Doyle W Jr; highly coveted, down to the Third minutes later. The spear passed to the Foster, Brent; Freer, Neil; Frueh, Deborah; Geller, Uri; Reich of Adolf Hitler. Habsburgs. Gladstone, William; Grant, Lois; Greene, Tara; Greer, Dr. Steve M; Gruder, Dr. David, PhD, DCEP; Harper, Adolf Hitler, a penniless painter of John Jay; Hauck, Dennis William; Hickman, Jim; Jaffer, “But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he watercolors in Vienna in 1913, was fascinated Hassan; Johansson, Linnea; Jones, Carolyn CJ; Joseph, Mike Mordakhai; Joyce, Elizabeth; Karst, Patrice; was already dead, they did not break his legs. by the lance and the stories that linked it with Kimball, Glenn; Knight, Sirona; Larson, Cynthia Sue; But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a generation of conquering German emperors. On Laszlo, Dr. Ervin; Lefort, David; Lemire, Dr. Luc; Levin, spear, and at once there came out blood and March 14, 1928, as chancellor of Germany, he Deborah; Loveland, Dr. Bara; MacLeod - Lutchin, Dr. water.” John 19:33-34. proclaimed the annexation of Austria into the Nance PhD, NMD/DNM; Mann Lucia; Marinelli, Gianni; McDonald, Lori Marie; McDonald, William L; Thus the centurion Longinus fulfilled Third Reich, and within days had given orders McDonnough, Michael; McKeever, Gracie C; Mercado, the prophecy that not a bone of Christ’s body for the Habsburg regalia to be carried off to Elaine RN; Miss Bonnie; Morgan, Robert W; Murdoch, David; Myers, Steven; Nightingale, Christine; Nunley, would be broken at His death. The spear was Nuremberg, the birth place of the Nazi Ann P; Oeste, Dr. Dave; Ogden, Frank - Dr. Tomorrow; inevitably sought as an invaluable relic by movement. It was as if he believed that Palmero. Joseph; Payton, Michelle; Penttila, Nancy; medieval Christians. possession of the lance would make him as Phenix & Phenix; Prescott, Heidi; Price, David; Psychic Over the centuries there have been powerful a conqueror in Europe as its former Universe; Pye, Lloyd; Radja, Shelley; Randle, Dr. Kevin; Ray, Rev. Peggy; Ress, Patricia Griffin; Robins, Barbara; several possible claimants to the title Sacred owners. Royes, Paul; Schenk, Nolalee; Schneid, Dr. William PhD; Lance, nut it is the spear to be found in the old On October 13 the lance was loaded Senate, Richard L; Shannon, Marilyn; Shapiro, Gerri; Shepherd, John; Sims, Derrel; Starks, Jan; Stein, palace of the Habsburg emperors - the Hofburg onto an armored train and, accompanied by an Matthew; Syska, Carol; Taffs, Mary; Taylor, Don; Teal, in Vienna - that holds the most authentic claim armed S.S. guard, was taken to St. Catherine’s Michael Lucien; Turi, Dr L; Unum, Michael; Valkos, Dan; to the name. According to Germanic tradition, Church in Nuremberg. For more than five years Wagman, Freda; Wagner, Angelica; Weil, Nancy; in the ninth century the lance was carried by the Hitler held undisputed sway in Europe: then Winston, John W; Woolford, Peter; Wong, Priestan Tiberius. first Holy Roman emperor, Charlemagne, came D-Day and the Allied landings. After through 47 victorious campaigns. Charlemagne heavy bombing of Nuremberg in October 1944, www.xzonedirectory.com met his death only when he accidentally the lance and the rest of the Habsburg regalia