Saint Sang (Relique)
According to tradition Gnostic , Holy Blood is difficult to dissociate from the cup of the Supper (the Holy Grail ) and the myth of the Grail , he is part of the esoteric mysteries of Christian Knighthood. It is part of the traditions and legends so popular in the Middle Ages.
The Gospels report that Jesus sent his disciples prepare the Passover meal. The texts of the New Testament refer to this meal.
The common story tells that in the evening while they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: "Take, this is my body" and then, taking a glass of wine, gave thanks and gave to them saying: "This is my blood, the blood of the covenant which is poured out for many".
The Apocrypha and the myth of the Grail
The texts Apocrypha , which are not part of the New Testament and are not recognized by Catholicism simply because they were written some three hundred years later, attach great importance to Pilate after the crucifixion. Cutting the Last Supper - that is to say the cup of wine blessed by Jesus Christ during the meal - is so confused with his blood shed on the cross. All merges into the myth of the Grail.
The Grail itself appears in history only from the twelfth century , more than a thousand years after the supposed date of the crucifixion.
Pilate (according to some legends associated with the Grail myth) would have given this vase to Joseph of Arimathea (considered by this tradition as "First Knight") to gather at the foot of the Cross, the Holy Blood of Christ which flowed from an injury in his right side caused by the soldier Longinus with the Holy Lance. The legend in the West brought to Gaul with Lazarus , Martha and Saintes Maries. Thereafter The Holy Blood of Fecamp in Seine-Maritime After the crucifixion, Nicodemus, who accompanied Joseph of Arimathea received Christ's body and proceeded to his burial. According to the Gnostic tradition, it seems that Nicodemus is one of the few men to have had physical contact with the dead body of Christ. He would have seen and touched, too, he was able to become the supplier of the precious relic. According to the Gnostic tradition, he would have collected particles or drops of blood recovered Christ by Joseph of Arimathea. Following a miraculous journey, the drops of blood, which were in a lead box, were carried by the trunk of a fig tree to the shore of Fecamp. A second story shows a different origin: the Precious Blood would have appeared to St. Leonard (now a suburb of Fecamp) during a Mass celebrated at the end of the tenth century . The relic was later found in the work in Trinity Church, circa 1170 . The first pilgrimage and miracle stories date from the end of the twelfth century. After a period of decline, the pilgrimage known as another success Second Empire. The Confraternity of the Precious Blood was officially founded in 1906 . Today, the relic of the Holy Blood is always kept in a jar kept in the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity. Each year, it showed the famous relic of the Precious Blood, which can still see the magnificent white marble reliquary in the Abbey. According to legend, a few drops of Holy Blood had been reported as relics in 1146 by Thierry d'Alsace on his return from the Holy Land and were kept in the Basilica of Holy Blood in Bruges. The acquisition of the relics of the Passion of Christ by Louis IX forced him to erect the Sainte-Chapelle. The Holy Blood joined the Crown of Thorns (purchased in 1239 the Venetians), the True Cross , the nails , the lance , the sponge , the Shroud , the purple robe and the Cross of Victory directly (purchased in 1241 to Emperor Baldwin II ). He disappeared, like many other holy relics, during the revolutionary events. The church of Saint-Jacques ( XIV - XV century ) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber is famous for his altarpieces, mainly one called the "Holy Blood" by Tilman Riemenschneider. The name of the altarpiece is due to a relic, a drop of blood of Christ. Rothenburg reached at the end of the Crusades, this relic quickly attracted a growing multitude of pilgrims. Cardinal Odo of Tusculum had brought from Jerusalem in the thirteenth century, two drops of Christ's blood in a glass ampoule. He donated it to the basilica of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur Neuvy Holy Sepulcher , located in the Indre department in 1257. Since that time, the procession of the Precious Blood pilgrimage takes place every Easter Monday. The relic is then paraded through the streets of the town before being escorted to the Basilica of St Jacques (listed as World Heritage by UNESCO ), where it is exposed and visible in the window year-round. There are other relics of Jesus' blood in Europe: 
The Holy Blood of Bruges Basilica
The Holy Blood of the Sainte Chapelle, Paris
The Holy Blood of the Saint-Jacques, Rothenburg ob der Tauber
The Precious Blood of the Basilica of Saint-Jacques Saint-Sepulchre Neuvy (France)
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