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	Embittered Andrew
		Longinus gets less light from the main nave but in the afternoon it is directly lit by the windows of the dome.
		The head of St. Andrew was kept in the cathedral of Patrasso where the saint was put to death in 60 A.D. At the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the Byzantine Empire consisted of the city and its immediate surroundings and of the despotate of Mistra which included Patrasso.
		Because the authenticity of the relic and in general of the events related to St. Longinus were rather dubious, the episodes painted in the Grottoes are mainly related to the procession accompanying the relic on its journey to Rome, rather than to St. Longinus.
	www.romeartlover.it /Andrea.html (1794 words)

	The Holy Lance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The point of the lance is then said to have been detached, and given to Nicetas, the former governor of Egypt, who brought the relic to Constantinople and deposited it in the church of St. Sophia.
		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.
	www.livingmiracles.net /HolyLance.html (3538 words)

	SMOTJ Priory Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Longinus, who was nearly blind, was healed when some of the blood and water from Jesus fell into his eyes.
		This point of the lance, which was now set in an "yeona", or icon, many centuries afterwards (i.e., in 1244) was present by Baldwin to St. Louis, and it was enshrined with the Crown of Thorns (q.v.) in the Sainte Chapelle.
		Another lance claiming to be that which produced the wound in Christ's side is now preserved among the imperial insignia at Vienna and is known as the lance of St. Maurice.
	www.smotj.org /priories/stlonginus/index.html (1867 words)

	What is the Lance of Longinus truely? - Anime Academy Lounge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Well, I didn't quite understand what the Lance of Longinus was suppose to be in the show, but it was actually a famous weapon in Christian religion, as it was, I believe, the lance that was used to pierce the side of Christ when he was on the Holy Cross.
		The Lance of Longinus was the spear that was driven into Jesus' side when he was hung on the cross.
		Lance of Longinus was probably copied, the same way as they copied parts of the Eva, from Lilith.
	www.animeacademy.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6041 (1433 words)

	LEFTFIELD-PSI Spear of Destiny Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Spear of Destiny, also known as the Lance of Longinus, is one of the central artifacts intimately associated with the Passion of Jesus Christ.
		In one account, Longinus is cured of his poor eyesight upon thrusting his spear into the side of Christ, presumably transferring the Grace of the Divine from the crucified Savior to Longinus.
		When it was disclosed the Longinus was a follower of Christ, he was arrested under orders from the local governor, who had the old centurion brought before him in an effort to convince Longinus to renounce his new faith and return to the Roman practices to which he had been raised.
	www.leftfield-psi.net /religion/spear_of_destiny.html (1957 words)

	Holy Lance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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".
		This point of the lance, which was now set in an "ycona", 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holy_Lance (1366 words)

	Spear of Destiny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to legend, the Spear of Destiny (also known as the Holy Lance, Holy Spear, Lance of Longinus, or Spear of Longinus) is the spear that is reported in the Gospel of John (19:31-37) as having pierced the side of Jesus during his crucifixion.
		Another purported Holy Lance has been in Kraków since at least the 1200s, though German records indicate that the lance was a copy made from the German lance under Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, with a small sliver of the original embedded.
		The Legend Of The Wanderings Of The Spear Of Longinus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lance_of_Longinus (2598 words)

	Lance of Longinus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From similar descriptions, there is a common thread to the grail possession and the four treasures of the de Danaan - the sword, the spear (wands), the cup, and the platter or paten (disk).
		Longinus was a Roman centurion present at Jeshua's crucifixion.
		The legend of the lance of Longinus is so powerful that there are even occult tales from the Nazi archives that Hitler sought the lance and had traced its history back through many great military geniuses all the way to Constantine the Great.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/l/lance_of_longinus.htm (397 words)

	The Spear Of Longinus
		According to the hagiography, Longinus, now converted, left the army and studied under the Apostles, and ultimately became a monk (and this at a time when there not yet were monasteries) at Caesarea in Cappodocia.
		There, poor Longinus ran afoul of the law because of his new faith and, we are told, was involved with yet another miraculous cure.
		His lance, the very weapon said to have pierced the sinless and holy body of Jesus Christ, is said to be contained in one of the four pillars which surmount the altar in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
	sxws.com /charis/relics8.htm (2157 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)

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		According to the legend, the lance was stolen from the descendants of Longinus by the Emperor Maximien in 287, then put down in Constantinople.
		This second error results from the bad understanding of the lance of Longinus, wooden sleeve of which was constituted by three fragments allowing it to extend it at will.
		The third error would be to have claimed that this lance had powers, in particular that not to be sensitive to the corrosion.
	monnaie.chez-alice.fr /longinus.htm (2188 words)

	The Bleeding Lance
		The bleeding lance is his literary invention based on an archaic mythological motif, whereas the Grail is a numinous symbol of the Organic Light and there is nothing invented about it, or its magical powers.
		The difference is, the meaning of the Grail is mystical, while the bleeding lance is a symbol of the genocidal and ecocidal pathology inflicted upon the world by the WMDs (white male demagogues) who enforce the theocratic program—or dominator agenda, as it has been called.
		From that moment, Hitler was convinced that he was destined to claim the relic, the lance of Longinus that had pierced the side of Christ (called the Maurice Spear, only the head preserved, in two parts).
	www.metahistory.org /BleedingLance.php (7863 words)

	Bleeding Lance
		Bleeding Lance (The Spear of Destiny, the Holy Lance) - A sacred object, imbued with magic, in Grail ceremonies.
		When the Grail is Christianized, this weapon transforms into the Holy Lance, the spear that pierced the side of Christ by the hand of a Roman soldier named Longinus.
		From the Vulgate Cycle on the Lance is also the weapon that inflicted the Grail-keeper's wound even though it is often attributed with healing powers.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/bleeding_lance.html (125 words)

	Home\|Collections\|Treasury\|The Holy Roman Empire\|The Holy Lance
		The Holy Lance is a Carolingian winged lance with perforated work of unequalled perfection: a pointed, oval aperture chiselled out of the centre of the blade with a forged ornamental iron pin inserted into it.
		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.
		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)

	The Golden Legend: The Life of Saint Longinus
		And yet for all that Longinus lost not his speech, but took an axe that he there found, and hewed and brake therewith the idols and said: Now may we see if they be very gods or not.
		A little time after the evil provost made Saint Longinus to come tofore him, and said to him that all the people were departed, and by his enchantment had refused the idols; if the king knew it he should destroy us and the city also.
		And Saint Longinus said: If thou wilt be whole and guerished put me appertly to death, and I shall pray for thee to our Lord, after that I shall be dead, that he heal thee.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/golden174.htm (547 words)

	Lance of Longinus - Uncyclopedia
		The Lance of Longinus was, or is, a very odd little llama-pod.
		This is the first section of the lance, and it has the power to shoot water, as it is made out of pipes.
		The LoL's power derives from the ability of the Equal-sec to stretch physics, thus allowing the Lanca to stretch to unparalelled lengths and also allowing the wielder to hold the Lance lightly in their hand, although it when fully extended weighs thousands of pounds.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Lance_of_Longinus (506 words)

	The Reliquary of St. Longinus
		According to tradition, St. Longinus was the centurion who pierced the side of Christ to prove that Jesus was dead.
		St. Longinus is said to have been converted to Christianity after noting the darkness descending following Christ's death, and because he was healed of his poor eyesight by Christ's blood flowing down his spear.
		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)

	The Evangelion Otaku Page :::
		The Lance of Longinus pulls free of the moon and flies toward earth as if drawn by EVA-01
		The original Lance of Longinus has returned as well.
		(EVA-01 grasps and splits the Lance of Longinus...
	www.evaotaku.com /html/sincerely.html (2404 words)

	St. Peter's - St Longinus Statue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Longinus was the Roman centurion who pierced the side of Christ with a lance.
		What was believed to be the Holy Lance of Longinus, was given to Innocent VIII in 1492.
		In the first pier on the right is the statue of St. Longinus, the soldier who pierced the side of Jesus, from which "blood and water" flowed.
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Statues/StLonginus/StLonginus.htm (407 words)

	Spear of Destiny
		The Spear of Longinus, also known as The Spear of Destiny was allegedly used by a Roman soldier Gaius Cassius, later called Longinus to pierce the side of Christ as he hung on the cross.
		As per the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus Longinus received the Spear of Destiny as a gift from his Grandfather, whom had received it from Julius Cesar as a gift for his outstanding military service in the conquest of Gaul.
		Julian belittled tales of the Holy Lances power and attempted to restore religion in the Roman Empire to the point it was at before his Grandfather Constantine the Great consolidated all major religion under the banner of the Vatican.
	www.geocities.com /nephilimnot/spear.html (2760 words)

	Absolute Anime / Neon Genesis Evangelion / Lilith
		Throughout most of the series, the Lance of Longinus was embedded in Lilith, causing the constant bleeding of LCL around Lilith.
		Rei retrieved the lance to destroy the 15th angel (in Earth's orbit), which it did, and thus projected into a lunar orbit, where retrieval was impossible.
		She had the Lance of Longinus, an ultimate Evangelion weapon, pierced in her abdomen for a long time, preventing her from growing.
	www.absoluteanime.com /eva/lilith.htm (757 words)

	The Holy Lance of Longinus
		The liturgy, known as the laus perennis (perpetual praise), was imported from Constantinople and was distinctive to the monastery of St. Maurice.
		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.
		Whether the term used in association with the lance "Longinus" was meant by early Christians to signify "assassination" instead of the soldier's actual name remains unclear.
	www.bibleprobe.com /holy_lance.htm (6129 words)

	The Quest For Bible Treasures
		Legend says that the soldier was a half-blind centurion called Longinus, who immediately fell to his knees and had his sight miraculously restored to him.
		Confusingly, the spear goes by a number of different names: lance of Longinus, lance of St Maurice, holy lance, spear of destiny.
		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.
	www.thequestforbibletreasures.com /Bible_Treasure_News/Spear/01Is_the_spear_that_pierced.htm (4650 words)

	Spear of Longinus
		"The Spear or Lance of Longinus is the legendary/apocryphal name given to the weapon that pierced the side of Christ, Longinus being supposed to be the name of the legionary who did the piercing.
		This same Longinus is often supposed to be the legionary who cried at Jesus' death, "Surely this is the Son of God!", and as such he has been raised to the status of saint, though St. Longinus is not one of the well known saints.
		Longinus (according to the show) was the Roman who put the spear into Christ and now was forced to live forever watching everyone he knew and loved grow old and die.
	www.masonicinfo.com /spear.htm (957 words)

	Ikari Gendo's Ultimate EVA FAQs about the Movies
		And even then, the EVA and the Lance (the Lance penetrating the EVA's core) are not even necessary for a "natural" Impact to occur.
		The Lance of Longinus is named after the soldier that stabbed Christ in his side at the Crucifixion.
		SEELE had been working on an artificial Lance of Longinus, but it is assumed that unlike their fully functional S2 Drives, the Lances were never fully completed (although the EVAs 05-13 never got the chance to test the replicas themselves on Lilith before the EVA-01 called back the real Spear of Destiny from the moon).
	www.therossman.com /evafaqs1/evamovie.html (1970 words)

	Balin
		Pellam is wounded by Balin with a lance in an attempt to avenge Garlon.
		The lance is the Dolorous Stroke or lance of Longinus (see: Bleeding Lance) that pierced the side of Christ.
		For his sacreligious use of the Holy Lance, Balin is doomed.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/balin_2.html (193 words)

	The Water and Stone Chronicles
		It was supposed to have been used by the knight-martyr St. Maurice, whose name is carved on the Holy Lance of Vienna, and was eventually connected with the Holy Grail in the Arthurian Vulgate Cycle, where it was identified with the Bleeding Lance that had wounded the Fisher King in earlier Grail romances.
		The foundation of the legend of Spear of Destiny then, is that having touched the body of God, the Holy Lance has been imbued with some aspect of God, or has become a contact point to some godlike supernatural power.
		One version of the legend holds that the Spear was brought to England by Cassius Longinus and Joseph of Arimathea after the crucifixion.
	spriggn.home.mindspring.com /grigori (1294 words)

	Legends Net
		Lance of Longinus: Introduced in Episode 22, the Lance of Longinus is a huge spear like weapon that can tear through an Angel's AT Field even when thrown from a long range.
		Since the lane was used for an Angel that hovered in space, the velocity of Rei's through made the lance go into Earth orbit.
		Progressive Knife or Prog-Knife: This is a vibrating blade made up of a special alloy which makes the blade very sharp.
	www.angelfire.com /anime4/hyrule/evaweapons.html (398 words)

	Beyond Movie Talk - re: "Longinus" review by Nix (Site not responding. Last check: )
		03-14-2005 05:57 AM i like the way the lance of longinus is used in so many films and animes, the funniest being in constantine recently, just referred to as the spear of destiny
		i like the way the lance of longinus is used in so many films and animes, the funniest being in constantine recently, just referred to as the spear of destiny
		It becomes clear, that the box contains the sacred Spear of Longinus (the one which was confirmed to be used upon Jesus on the Hills of Golgatha to verify if he was still alive) and it's said to have healing powers, as well as the power to destroy vampires.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /vb/printthread.php?t=529 (544 words)

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