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Holy Grail is a dish, plate, stone, or cup What was you thinking ?????

" first appears in Perceval le Gallois, an unfinished romance by Chrétien de Troyes:[1] it is a processional salver used to serve at a feast. Chrétien's story attracted many continuators, translators and interpreters in the later 12th and early 13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who makes the grail a great precious stone that fell from the sky. The Grail legend became interwoven with legends of the Holy Chalice.[2] The connection with Joseph of Arimathea and with vessels associated with the Last Supper and crucifixion of Jesus, dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie (late 12th century) in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain. Building upon this theme, later writers recounted how Joseph used the Grail to catch Christ's blood while interring him and how he founded a line of guardians to keep it safe in Britain. The legend may combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special powers.

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Friday, September 6th 2013 at 1:20AM
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This should fit right in with the Holy Grail theme:

The King’s Touch
While King Charles II was traveling in his carriage along with an entourage of escorts and followers, the carriage broke down. As the King was alighting from the carriage, the hem of his garment accidentally touched a man with a horrible skin condition. Within two days, the skin condition was totally healed. Word got around and eventually back to King Charles that the King possessed the healing touch.
Many sick people petitioned the King to “touch” them and be obliged, healing approximately four thousand people a year! However, the King tired of this outlandish eccentricity and appointed, by decree, a royal stroker who had an official letter from the King bestowing the royal touch on to the stroker.
Several “strokers” were appointed over time and they would go down long lines of sick people with a variety of illnesses, touching them one by one and stretching the brain and beliefs into the epiphanies of divine healing.
One stroker, a man by the name of Valentine was particularly effective. Because so many of the “patients” smelled, were covered with sores and other vulgar deformities, he chose to touch them with a feather. The results were the same. He would treat or “stroke” hundreds of people a day by simply and literally running down long lines of very ill, sickly, afflicted men and women and simply stroking them with a feather and spreading the contagious magic of healing.
England’s King Edward the Confessor also touched hundreds of subjects who also reported remissions and healing of a wide range of physical maladies and illnesses.
Touching is an essential part of human nurturing from birth onward and results in the brain releasing a cascade of neurotransmitters, as well as triggering the release of a number of genes.
http://drpulos.com/blog/the-kings-touch-an...

Friday, September 6th 2013 at 6:38AM
Helen Lofton