What do you think the Holy Grail is?

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A never-ending quest.

Travis

Isn’t that the Bible for blind people?

No wait, that's the Holy Braille. Never mind.

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Wonderful answer, Travis! Most people say it is the cup Jesus supposedly used at the Last Supper.

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Some believe it's the quest for the feminine aspect of the Divine.

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Well, there are relics, and then there are RELICS. I once saw Fr. Guido Sarducci give a pretty good defense of his contention that he had bought a copy of the check from the Last Supper....

Personally, I think that the Holy Grail represents whatever it is that Christianity lacks for the particluar searcher of the Grail.

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That is one of the more universal symbolisms of a cup or chalice meant to hold wine (symbolizing the menstrual blood). When the Earth Mother cults reined supreme, this was a very sacred symbology. It was connected with birth and regeneration. Likewise, in some Christian mythology, the Grail was rumored to catch some of the blood from Christ and so whoever drinks from it finds regeneration/immortality.

Travis

In Britain, I suspect it was a blend of Keltic legend and Christian beliefs...

There was a caldron that could produce some marvelous things in legend and this was probably combined with the Graal legend.

I think also it may be as Eucharist was a very important and central to the church that it was believed there was an "original" cup and it contained the blood of Christ as the Eucharistic Chalice.

People were very literalist in their thinking and so were open to venerating relics and those who produced them.

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