The Grail is one of the most famous and legendary of all holy relics, but did it really exist? Jamie Theakston, Forbidden History: The Holy Grail, Yesterday 2014
So pass I hostel, hall and grange
By bridge and ford, by park and pale
All-arm’d I ride and whate’re betide
Until I find the Holy Grail. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir Galahad
This is the Santo Caliz or Cup of Christ kept at Valencia Cathedral ... It’s guarded by an ordained order of knights who have sworn to protect the cup with their lives. Ancient X Files s1e1: Holy Grail and the Minotaur, National Geographic 2010
A recent discovery suggests that stone may have been the more likely material for an incantation cup. ibid.
He [Himmler] had a team of occultists in the SS. He had a whole office for it. In the Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, the earliest German language description of the Holy Grail, the castle of the Grail is called Munsalvaesche. Because Montserrat sounds a little bit similar, he believed that the Holy Grail was there. But it was not. Michael Hesselman, Holy Grail author & researcher
We will find this Grail or die. Excalibur 1981 starring Helen Mirren & Nigel Terry & Gabriel Byrne & Liam Neeson & Nicholas Clay & Cherie Lunghi & Paul Geoffrey & Nicol Williamson & Corin Redgrave & Patrick Stewart & Keith Buckley & Clive Swift & Gabriel Byrne et al, director John Boorman, knight of round table
‘It is that cup which is the Grail.’ Secrets of the Bible s1e11: The Holy Grail, Lionel Fanthorpe, History 2015
‘Almost certainly to have been a simple wooden cup.’ ibid. Fanthorpe
The legend of the Grail is not in the Bible. So where does it come from? ibid.
The Holy Grail – Christianity’s ultimate relic, said to be the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper and lost for thousands of years. Many have searched for it but there are some who claim to know exactly where it is. Ancient Mysteries s1e5: Search for the Holy Grail, Channel 5 2017
Over 200 relics claiming to be the true Grail appear in churches around the world. ibid.
Spain: experts believe the polished onyx cup matches the style of cups used at the time of Jesus ... At the time of Jesus this would have been considered a luxury item. ibid.
The most elusive holy relic of all time: was it the chalice Jesus used to celebrate the last supper? Was it a magic vessel found again in Arthurian times? From the Holy Land, to pagan Britain to the New World In Search of has tracked this mystery: what was the Holy Grail? In Search of s5e18 … The Holy Grail, History 1981
A treasure coveted by everyone from Roman emperors to Hitler. Even Indiana Jones tried to find it. But where is this miraculous vessel? And is it even a cup at all? History’s Greatest Mysteries s3e6: Holy Grail, History 2022
An SS organisation whose job was to use history and archaeology to prove the aims of the master race. Secret History s7e3: Hitler’s Search for the Holy Grail, Michael Wood reporting, Channel 4 1999
An astonishing story, a story which began with the search for Atlantis and the Holy Grail and which ended in genocide. ibid.
‘Never forget,’ Himmler told the SS, ‘we are a knightly order to which we cannot withdraw, to which we are recruited by blood.’ ibid.