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 | | Its author drew from the poem “Joseph d”Arimathie” (1205), by Robert de Boron, and a story about The Holy Grail, “Li Conte del Graal” (1190), by Chretien de Troyes, whose source he confessed was an earlier work [now lost] called “The Holy Grail”, which was one of the over 200 second-century apocryphal gospels. |
 | | The story of Joseph of Arimathea is given in the “Cronica sive Historia de Rebus Glastoniensibus” (1342), by John of Glastonbury, a medieval writer. |
 | | Too, Hugh Paulinus de Cressy, a medieval French writer, who quoted freely from the “Annales Ecclesiae Britanniae”, a Latin manuscript by an unknown author, spoke of the first church in Britain which he says was built by Joseph of Arimathea. |
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