I thought I would share this with everyone. I found it after I posted earlier and only just now got back to the room. The story will speak for itself.

Alfredo Barbagallo said ancient records show the cup is buried in a chamber beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, one of the seven churches Christian pilgrims used to visit when they came to Rome, The (London) Telegraph said Thursday.

The archeologist said he spent two years studying medieval iconography inside the basilica, and a description of the chamber in a guide to the catacombs written in 1938 by a Capuchin friar named Giuseppe Da Bra.

He said the cup, given the name the Holy Grail in the Middle Ages, disappeared in A.D. 258 after a deacon named Lorenzo -- with whom Pope Sixtus V reportedly entrusted treasures of the early Church -- was martyred.

A Vatican spokesman said no decision has been made on the possibility of opening the catacombs, the newspaper said.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International

So is the guy a loon or does the theory have merit?

Something powerful resides in Rome. That is all I know.

Yeah, he bitched the entire time we were there.

I dunno that, if it existed, the Holy Grail would hold much power by itself...so I dunno if Belladrox was sensing that or not.

My gut instinct says not.

If there is a Holy Grail, if it wasn't some falsified artifact made to garner support of the church through the Dark Ages, then I wouldn't know where it would be... I would think twice about touching it, though. That sorta thing reeks of dark necromancy to me.

Think about it... A cup used to catch the blood of a dying man--be he man, Messiah, or other--would probably not be the kind of artifact I'd want to have lying around my house...

But then again, I personally find many things from the Christian perspective to be skewed and just kinda wrong... Not everything, mind you. Christ's message is still potent and true. Pity that his followers twisted it so badly, but that's the way it goes...

From what I have been made to understand, there are a few questionable Artifacts in Rome. The Grail if it is real would be only one of them.

Two words: Vatican Vault.

There's literally a vault-load of questionable artifacts and materials there...

No Duh. It is a Huge problem waiting to happen, and just one more reason why My bosses, and the Vatican don't get along.

I'm just wondering why anyone would want to hold out a cup to catch a dead guy's blood in the first place. It seems somehow inappropriate, like going to a funeral to give a guy a shave.

Anyone else get a whole DaVinci Code kind of vibe from this?

Kinda, yeah...

There is another problem, in that there is in fact more than one item being called the Grail floating around out there. Bigger problem is that at least a couple of them are in fact very Evil artifacts.

You didn't think it was going to be that easy, did you?

Longenus' Spear... If it exists, another artifact I would probably view as just another tool of dark necromancy...

I never put much stalk into that one. The spear may of existed but what were the chances that it would fall into the early christian's hands. At that time they were powerless and usually on the run from the Jewish government (since they were seen as a heretical sect of Judaism). Somehow I doubt a roman soldier would just turn over his spear to them.

Whether the spear started as a powerful artifact or became one, odds are it would have eneded up in someone's hands.

Dangerous Artifacts have a way of turning up.

Someone is in a silly mood.

At least that explains how Greybeard got a hold of it. They took it from the O.S.S. precursor to the C.I.A. (Ron as that agency didn't exist then.)

KonThaak wrote:But then again, I personally find many things from the Christian perspective to be skewed and just kinda wrong...

Had you not seen the old English portraits in which several things could happen, involving Jesus' wound? In one variety, the blood pours into the cup while an individual holds it under the spray like a faucet. In another, an individual skips the cup and drinks straight from the wound, Jesus himself looking slightly effeminate (according to art critics), and the wound in that picture could easily be interpreted as a nipple, so the Christ is considered a motherly figure in that instance, nurturing her young. It's true, followers of Christianity have done some creepy things to Jesus over the years, and you're right, though, KT, it does seem pretty wrong, but it's a tradition of wrongness.

Shadowstalker wrote:At least that explains how Greybeard got a hold of it. They took it from the O.S.S. precursor to the C.I.A. (Ron as that agency didn't exist then.)

That's just what they want us to beleive.

The agency has existed, in one form or another, since the founding fathers.

Ron Caliburn wrote:The spear was in the possession of the Nazi SS for a while actually then the CIA took it and substituted a copy.

Shadowstalker wrote:At least that explains how Greybeard got a hold of it. They took it from the O.S.S. precursor to the C.I.A. (Ron as that agency didn't exist then.)

Do you guys know something you’re not telling?