Holy Grail Part Three

A chivalric exponent wrote 3 books about the Chivilric code in the hope of reviving French knighthood. In the ‘Book of Chivilry’, keeping peace was paramount, and it says any knight who failed in his duties “deserves to have his teeth pulled out one by one”! 

Tournaments carried the oriflamme banner, the royal standard at the Battle of Poitiers where Geoffrey de Charny (1300-1356) died. 

What was dubbing? It was an accolade of knighthood. It involved giving a blow with the hand or a strike with the flat of the sword in church. The knight would confess his sins to the priest, take a bath and spent the night in vigil. 

“What if my whole life has been wrong?” 

It occurred to him what had appeared perfectly impossible before, namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done, might after all be true. It occurred to him that his scarcely noticeable impulses, which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and that the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and his family, and of his social and official interests, might all have been false. He tried to defend all those things to himself and suddenly felt the weakness of what he was defending. There was nothing to defend…. “   Tolstoy Ivan Ilych 

Was the Holy Grail a cup that Jesus drank from at his Last Supper? I don’t think so! The Passover meal to commemorate the lamb sprinkled on the doors of the houses that enabled the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt is an important meal, but not one that would be valuable or even unique. What Jesus said at that table represented a Holy Grail as Jesus was going to be placed on trial, tortured and crucified. Therefore Jesus would have been a far more important and holier grail than any material cup. 

Write up by Wendy Stokes https://Wendystokes.co.uk