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	Encyclopedia: Holy Lance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A spear was venerated as the Holy Lance at Jerusalem by the close of the 6th century, and the presence there of this important relic is attested half a century earlier by Cassiodorus (In Ps.
		This point of the lance, which was now set in an "yeona", or icon in 1244 was sold by Baldwin II of Constantinople to Louis IX of France, and it was enshrined with the Crown of Thorns in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
		Another lance claiming to be that which produced the wound in Christ's side is now preserved among the imperial insignia kept in the Schatzkammer in Vienna and is known as the lance of St.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Holy-Lance (2526 words)

	Nwywre Island
		That Lance is now at Etschmiadzin in Armenia; scholars believe that it is not actually a Roman lance but the head of a standard, although it may have an interesting history of its own, separate from the legend of the Lance.
		Hitler’s lance was the fourth Spear, called the Lance of St. Maurice and the Holy Lance of Hapsburg, which is part of the Reichkleinodien (Imperial Regalia) of the house of Hapsburg.
		Thusasne) plainly shows, on account of the rival lances known to be preserved at Nuremberg, Paris, etc., and on account of the supposed discovery of the Holy Lance at Antioch by the revelation of St. Andrew, in 1098, during the First Crusade.
	www.nwywre.com /relics/lance.html (2051 words)

	The Holy Lance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A fourth existing spear, known as the “Lance of St. Maurice” or the “Holy Lance of Hapsburg”, is part of the Imperial Regalia of the house of Hapsburg in Vienna.
		From 1273, the lance was used in the coronation ceremony of the Emperor of the West.
		He carried the Holy Lance in 47 successful campaigns, always slept with it close at hand and supposedly believed it was the source of his legendary clairvoyance.
	www.livingmiracles.net /HolyLance.html (3538 words)

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		Lance 1: When construction was underway on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the True Cross and the Nails of the Crucifixion were uncovered.
		It seems the Holy Lance was buried under one of the churches in Antioch.
		Lance 4: Sometime during the Carolingian Empire a lance head was made to serve as a reliquary for one of the Holy Nails.
	www.ostgardr.org /seahorse/articles/Holy.Lance (543 words)

	Holy Chalice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the development of their legends, the Holy Chalice has often been identified with the Holy Grail, which is said to be the cup used to catch Jesus' dripping blood on the Cross.
		(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, and, whether or not it was the cup used at the Last Supper, it was most surely of silver.
		The physical properties of the Holy Chalice are described and it is stated the vessel had been used to celebrate Mass by the early Popes succeeding Saint Peter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_Chalice (1087 words)

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		At the lower end of the lance are two blades that were added later and that extend to the wings of the lance and are tied to it with narrow leather thongs.
		The Holy Lance does indeed have crosses inlaid in brass on the knots of the pin as well as on the wings of the lance.
		It remains unclear why the point of the lance was renamed St. Maurice in the inscription in which the Holy Lance is expressly addressed as a dual relic.
	www.khm.at /staticE/page477.html (417 words)

	Holy Grail - Crystalinks
		The fate of the Holy Grail is unknown.
		The legend of the Holy Grail is the basis of the use of the devalued term holy grail in modern-day culture.
		The legend of the Holy Grail is the basis of the use of the term holy grail in modern-day culture.
	www.crystalinks.com /holygrail.html (4459 words)

	The Holy Lance of Longinus
		The Holy Lance was affixed to a pole.
		The story is told that a fake lance was constructed and returned to the museum, with the real Holy Lance being held by a secret group 'in Germany, the Knights of the Holy Lance.
		A later book entitled; "Adolf Hitler and the Secrets of the Holy Lance" (by Buechner and Bernhart) claims that a replica of the was returned to the Vienna Museum, while the real lance may have been squirrel-away with other secret Nazi plundered treasure by Himmler and the SS to South America or Antarctica.
	www.bibleprobe.com /holy_lance.htm (6129 words)

	The Reliquary of St. Longinus
		"The Holy Relics of Charlemagne and King Athelstan: The Lances of Longinus and St. Mauricius." Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, vol.
		Loomis is of the opinion that this Spear is the same one currently reposing in the Hofburg Treasure House in Vienna.
		According to many claims, Hitler himself was interested in holy relics in general and the Lance of Longinus in particular.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/9587/rel_lon.html (1258 words)

	Holy Lance
		The Holy Lance was the spear thrust into the side of Jesus Christ while hanging on the cross.
		Andrew[?] told him that the Holy Lance was buried in St. Peter's Cathedral in Antioch.
		In any case, after much digging in the cathedral, Peter Bartholomew took a hand and, in a few moments, discovered the lance.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/Holy_Lance.html (151 words)

	LEFTFIELD-PSI Spear of Destiny Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Spear of Destiny is said to have passed into the hands of his son, Otto II (Holy Roman Emperor 973-983), to Otto III (Holy Roman Emperor 983-1002), and finally into the possession of Henry II "the Saint" (Holy Roman Emperor 1002-1024).
		Called upon to his duty as Holy Roman Emperor to defend the faith against all enemies, Frederick Barbarossa gathered an army of an estimated 150,000 fighting men, along with a veritable army of auxiliary supporters such as cooks, porters, and armorers, to begin the long march to Palestine through Asia Minor.
		With exposure to the mysteries of the Holy Land and the birthplace of the legends surrounding this sacred artifact during the First Crusade, scholars began to find documentation which suggested that the Spear had been in the lands of Palestine for centuries.
	www.leftfield-psi.net /religion/spear_of_destiny5.html (1933 words)

	The Great Search for the Holy Grail
		The “Quest for the Eternal,” the Holy Grail, is one of the world’s most romantic and adventurous quests that have spawned many myths of the Grail origin and final resting location over a period of 150 years.
		The legend of the Holy Grail is one of the most enduring in Western European literature and art.
		The magical properties attributed to the Holy Grail have been traced to the magic vessels of Celtic myth that satisfied the tastes and needs of all who ate and drank from them.
	www.angelfire.com /mt/holygrail (624 words)

	LEFTFIELD-PSI Spear of Destiny Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Holy Lance of Longinus continued along this line, allegedly passing to three other Hohenstaufen emperors, as well as members of the Hapsberg dynasty of rulers, before being reposited in what many consider its "traditional" home, the Hapsberg Treasure House in Vienna, Austria.
		In most accounts, it is the wizard Merlin who informs the king that the lance is the very spear which pierced the side of Christ in his dying moments- the Spear of Destiny.
		It was then borne in procession to S. Peter's, and from the loggia of the portico the Holy Father bestowed his blessing upon the crowds, whilst the Cardinal della Rovere standing at his side exposed the Sacred Relic to the verneration of the thronging piazza.
	www.leftfield-psi.net /religion/spear_of_destiny6.html (1515 words)

	LEFTFIELD-PSI Spear of Destiny Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is some contention at this juncture of the long history of the Holy Lance of Longinus as to what the conversation may have been between the two great generals, but it is believed that Patton was firmly in favor of claiming the spear in the name of the United States.
		In all reality, there are two spears which are said to be the Holy Lance of Longinus, one of which is housed in Rome and the other in Vienna.
		The wooden shaft to which the spearhead was once attached disappeared long ago and the tip of the spear has been broken off and rebound with threads of gold, silver, and bronze to hold it together, along with a nail said to have been used in the crucifixion of Christ.
	www.leftfield-psi.net /religion/spear_of_destiny8.html (2097 words)

	The Quest For Bible Treasures
		At this time the lance was held by the German king Otto I, but, like Ravenscroft, Luitprand also links it to Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor, who died in 337.
		The author of this fiction, and father of the cult that grew from it, was the 14th-century king of Bohemia, and later of Germany, Charles IV.
		In 1438 a silver-embossed chest was made to contain it, and hung for safekeeping from the rafters of the church at the Hospital of the Holy Ghost.
	www.thequestforbibletreasures.com /Bible_Treasure_News/Spear/01Is_the_spear_that_pierced.htm (4650 words)

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		Supposedly, it is the Spear used by the Roman Centurion, Longinus to pierce the side of Christ during the crucifixion.
		It is known as the "Maurice Spear," the "Lance of Longinus," the "Holy Lance," and the "Spear of Destiny." In Hitler's book Mein Kampf, he recalls his first encounter with the antiquity.
		Today, the "Lance of Longinus" is back in the Weltiche Schatzkammer of the Hofburg Treasure House in the exact same spot where Hitler first beheld it in 1909.
	www.randomreel.com /spear.htm (721 words)

	First Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He told of having received several visions over the preceding months from St. Andrew in which the saint told him that the Holy Lance—the spear that pierced Christ's side as he hung on the Cross—lay buried in St. Peter's Cathedral in Antioch.
		Word of the discovery of the Lance spread rapidly and it was taken to Count Raymond.
		The Crusaders carried the Holy Lance on a standard at the head of the army.
	crusades.boisestate.edu /1st/24.shtml (400 words)

	Holy Lance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article concerns the historical and religious issues regarding the lance used at the Crucifixion in Christian belief.
		For the elaborate Nazi mythology surrounding this relic and modern manufactured legend, see Spear of Destiny.
		The lance is unknown until the pilgrim St. Antoninus of Piacenza (AD 570), describing the holy places of Jerusalem, tells us that he saw in the Basilica of Mount Sion "the crown of thorns with which Our Lord was crowned and the lance with which He was struck in the side".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_Lance (1073 words)

	The Wounding and Healing Holy Spear
		Left: a holy lance was discovered in Antioch cathedral during the First Crusade.
		In either case it is a holy relic that belongs with the Grail, and which is used by
		Greek myth of Telephus the holy spear is able both to wound (even to destroy) and to heal the wound that it made.
	home.c2i.net /monsalvat/spear.htm (2557 words)

	Allakhazam.com: Final Fantasy XI
		The Dragoon Lance is a very rare drop from the Blue Dragons on the moon, and yes I did get it; however it is NOT Kains final weapon.
		because i know the holy lance was gotten from the incredibly difficult bosses on the way to the final bosses.
		All the lances (lances, not polearms) have extreme damage ratings and a high delay.
	ffxi.allakhazam.com /db/item.html?fitem=2244 (719 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Holy Lance
		Today there exist several historic spears claimed to be the "holy lance" of the biblical story.
		Napolean attempted to obtain the lance after the battle of Austerlitz, but it had been smuggled out of the city prior to the start of the fight and he never got a hold of it.
		On October 13th the lance was loaded onto an armored train and sent to the city.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /spear.htm (899 words)

	Spear of Destiny - Crystalinks
		Also called the Holy Lance, this spear was believed to have been the weapon used to pierce the side of Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion.
		The lance appears both in factual history and in fiction.
		In the Wagner opera Parsival, Klingsor was a despicable adversary of the Knights of the Holy Grail.
	www.crystalinks.com /speardestiny.html (631 words)

	Spear of Destiny
		Of the weapon thus sanctified nothing is known until the pilgrim St. Antoninus of Piancenza (A.D. 570), describing the holy places of Jerusalem, tells us that he saw in the basilica of Mount Sion "the crown of thorns with which Our Lord was crowned and the lance with which He was struck in the side".
		Whatever the Constantinople relic was, it fell into the hands of the Turks, and in 1492, under circumstances minutely described in Pastor's "History of the Popes", the Sultan Bajazet sent it to Innocent VIII to conciliate his
		et Canon., IV, ii, 31) states that he obtained from Paris an exact drawing of the point of the lance, and that in comparing it with the larger relic in St. Peter's he was satisfied that the two had originally formed one blade.
	www.lanceasanctum.com /spear.htm (1654 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Real History of the Holy Grail
		Robert turns the grail from a dish into the cup of the Last Supper (serving as a ciborium rather than a chalice) and has the Grail-king wounded by the holy lance of Longinus that had pierced the side of Jesus.
		But it was the connection with the Holy Eucharist that fixed the Grail in medieval minds.
		Grail "accessories" such as the holy lance and the broken sword of David repaired by Galahad recall relics, votive offerings of weapons, and royal regalia preserved in churches.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6511&longdesc (2874 words)

	LIVING MIRACLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From early morning on Holy Thursday, Myrna is feeling a strange sensation as if her palms were being pierced by a pointed object.
		The “Holy Lance”, also known as the “Spear of Destiny”, is one of the most famous relics, thought to be the spear-head of the lance which pireced Christ during the crucufixion.
		In the New Testament it was used to signify the influence of the Holy Spirit, for burial preparation, and to anoint the forehead of a guest as a mark of honor.
	www.livingmiracles.net (2649 words)

	Stigmata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And a bleeding wound in her side is similar to the one inflicted by a roman soldiers lance [John 19:34] (right).
		There is one known exception to this: In 1442, during the night of Holy Friday, St. Rita of Cassia (1381-1457) received the stigmata in form of a single thorn in the forehead.
		At the Church of the Holy Cross in Montefalco, Italy, the vial and the still incorrupt heart is preserved in a silver bust reliquary.
	www.livingmiracles.net /Stigmata.html (8213 words)

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		The Holy Lance passes to Mauritius, a Roman tribune, commander of the Theban Legion and a descendant of Longinus (Gaius Cassius) 286 Mauritius (St. Maurice) and 6,666 members of the Theban Legion, all Christians, are martyred after refusing to destroy the Holy Lance.
		A nail, supposedly from the cross of Jesus, is inserted into the blade of the Holy Lance during the reign of Otto III.
		Henry IV (1050-1106) had the Holy Lance fitted with a silver sleeve which bore the inscription”Clavus Dominicus” (the nail of our Lord) 1118 The Knights Templars are organized by Hugues de Payen 1127 After nine years in Jerusalem, the Templars return to Europe wealthy beyond belief and soon instituted an international banking system across Europe.
	www.humanitas-international.org /showcase/chronography/timebase/timeline-bc.htm (7388 words)

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