![]() ![]() ![]() Today the Holy Grail of the Last Supper is part of medieval Christian mythology, although it lacks specific references in biblical texts, there are very interesting legends. An elixir of life, and therefore even grants immortality to those who drink from it. One of the most coveted is to rejuvenate, as an elixir of eternal youth, to multiply food and make it more exquisite, to restore hope to the desolate and downcast, to heal those who are close to death and even that of giving life to the dead. Legends about the Holy Grail confer various powers on this extraordinary object. THE EXTRAORDINARY POWERS OF THE HOLY GRAIL However, Jesus had already transmuted six stone jars of about one hundred liters of water each into wine, and of “good quality” too, at the wedding in Cana, but no one remembers or looks for those large stone jars…they are not enough mainstream I suppose?). That is why Christianity took advantage of this consonance, adopting the cup as a venerable and sacred object, who knows if also with supernatural powers acquired by contact, because Jesus transmuted the wine into his blood for the first time at the Last Supper. Its analogy in this sense with the Christian ritual of the Eucharist is clear, and although there is a whole legend. Therefore the cup would have the power to transmute its content into another. Hence it has been and is such a coveted object. And it is that the cup is attributed the same powers as the legendary stone, that of converting the base metals into others of greater value, such as lead, into gold or silver. Some authors identified it with the philosopher’s stone of the alchemists. ![]()
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