Holy Grail. The Legend, the History, the Evidence

The Holy Grail was said to be the vessel from which Christ drank at the Last Supper, which later held some of the blood of the crucified Christ and which was brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea. Fact or fiction? The grail was later plunged into the realms of Arthurian and medieval legend and myth and remains a mystery today. This book traces the events that led to the rise of the legend associated with the grail, based on both textual material and historical facts relating to Christ, Holy Wars, relics, the Knights Templar and so on. Griffin claims that 'The Grail is not only a true, physical object, but the truth behind the legend has proven to be even stranger than the fiction written about it... the myth of the Grail as simply a spiritual or psychological abstraction has been shattered'.