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The first is the Santo Cáliz, an agate cup in the Cathedral of Valencia, purportedly from around the 1st century AD, and celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 as "this most famous chalice" (hunc praeclarum Calicem); Valencia's Holy Chalice is the object most commonly identified as a claimant to being the Holy Grail. [6]
The old chapter house (today Holy Grail Chapel, 1356–1369), where the canons met to discuss internal affairs, and the Miguelete Tower, known as El Miguelete in Castilian Spanish or Torre del Micalet in the Valencian language, were initially separate from the rest of the church, but in 1459 the architects Francesc Baldomar and Pere Compte ...
The Holy Grail today in Valencia Cathedral Archived 2017-07-28 at the Wayback Machine (in French) XVth-century Old French Estoire del saint Graal manuscript BNF fr. 113 Bibliothèque Nationale de France, selection of illuminated folios, Modern French Translation, Commentaries. The full text of Studies on the legend of the Holy Grail at Wikisource
Valencia’s tourist board website also describes the cup as “the Holy Chalice… used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper.” Announcing that you have the Holy Grail is, of course, a tourism draw.
Archaeologists have revealed the provenance of the iconic “holy grail” cup discovered alongside 12 human skeletons at the exact location in Jordan where “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade ...
Several Holy Chalice relics are reported in the legend of the Holy Grail, though not part of Catholic tradition. [29] Of the existing chalices, only the Santo Cáliz de Valencia (Holy Chalice of the Cathedral of Valencia) is recognized as a "historical relic" by the Vatican, [30] although not as the actual chalice used at the Last Supper. [31]
Valencia Valencian Community: Valencia: 1238 [109] Claims to house the Holy Grail since 1437. [110] Metropolitan Cathedral of our Lady of the Assumption: Valladolid Castile and Leon: Valladolid: 1668 [111] Originally projected to be the largest cathedral in Christendom, it was left unfinished when less than half of the building was built. [112]
The ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ is set to be recovered from the bottom of the ocean - along with its treasures which are believed to be worth up to $20bn in today’s money.