records show that for 500 years a cup
thought to be the Holy Grail was kept in
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem then in 909 AD it disappeared
from history now an astonishing
discovery may have solved the mystery
Spanish historian margarita Torres came
to this controversial conclusion in 2014
when she chanced upon a medieval text
hidden in a library in Egypt we have any
section 16 written in Arabic this
document refers to an event a hundred
and fifty years after the cup disappears
from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
here we have the first document found in
a Cairo is written in parchment there is
one line that stands out here is said
the cup that the Christians called the
cup of their Messiah this is the first
possible reference to the cup of Christ
after 909 ad
the text tells the story of a Muslim
entourage giving the cup to a king in
Spain the king of lay on Ferdinand the
great but why would the cup be in Muslim
hands rising tension between Christians
and Muslims in 11th century Jerusalem
led to the looting of churches and the
chance for sacred relics to fall into
Muslim possession the looting was
phenomenal but it went hand in hand with
an enormous persecution of Christians
and Palestine the beginning of the 11th
century but if the cup was looted why
would it then be handed to a Christian
King in Spain in 1055 Spain is divided
Muslims rule the south and Christians
the north lay on is the most powerful
Christian Kingdom and its King Ferdinand
is looking to push south into Muslim
kingdoms the document reveals that a
Muslim ruler of Denia in the south of
Spain gave the cup of Christ to King
Ferdinand in a bid to prevent any
possible invasion evidence suggests King
Ferdinand believed this Cup to be the
genuine Grail and that it was only
covered in gold after arriving Leone in
1055
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