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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Itineraria
Although he covered in his travels nearly the same extensive territory as the Spanish nun, his work contains but few details not found in other writers; it is, moreover, marred by gross errors and by fabulous tales which betray the most naive credulity.
670) the French bishop Arculf was wrecked on the western coast of Britain after visiting the Holy Land.
Having been hospitably received by St. Adamnan, then abbot of the famous Monastery of Iona, Arculf described to him his voyage and drew for him the plans of some of the churches of Jerusalem.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08254a.htm   (1942 words)

  
 Holy Grail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This Grail appears only in the account of Arculf, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon pilgrim who saw it, and through an opening of the perforated lid of the reliquary where it reposed, touched it with his own hand which he had kissed.
(Arculf also saw the Holy Lance in the porch of the basilica of Constantine.) This is the only mention of the chalice situated in the Holy Land.
There is a reference in the late thirteenth century to a copy of the Grail being at Constantinople.
holy-grail.iqnaut.net   (3025 words)

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