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Article: One man's quest for the Holy Grail ends in a loft in Rugby
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1995
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An amateur historian has discovered what may be the original
Holy Grail - the vessel believed by the early medieval world to
have been used to collect the blood of Christ.
The extraordinary find came to light after seven years of
investigations by a Coventry-based historical researcher, Dr Graham
Phillips, who tracked the potential "relic" down to a house in
Rugby, Warwickshire, where its owner kept it in a box in the loft.
Dr Phillips has unearthed a substantial body of evidence linking
the find - a small green onyx cup of possible Roman date - to the
Grail legend.
In the medieval Arthurian romances, the Holy Grail was the cup
used by the man who buried Jesus - Joseph of Arimathea - to ...