Crowds are flocking to León ’s San Isidro basilica in Spain after two historians published a book claiming that the treasured chalice of the Infanta Doña Urraca is the mythical chalice from which Jesus pledge during the last supper .
The basilica ’s curator had no pick but to remove the chalice from show after visitant started swarming in . They ’re now looking for an exhibition space large enough to accommodate the crowds .
Credit : José - Manuel Benito Álvarez / Wikimedia Commons .
The goblet is made of agate , amber and onyx and is encrust with precious stones . It ’s formed by two goblet link together , with one turn up , the other down .
The Guardianexplains its historic significance :
It has been known until now as the goblet of the Infanta Doña Urraca , daughter of Fernando I , King of León from 1037 to 1065 .
The two historians – León University knightly chronicle reader Margarita Torres and artistic creation historian José Manuel Ortega del Rio – identify it as the grail in their book , Kings of the Grail , published last week .
They say two Egyptian parchments they found in 2011 at Cairo ’s University of al - Azhar set them on a three - year investigating .
Their studies led them to identify the upper part of the princess ’s goblet , made of agate and missing a fragment as described in the lambskin , as the grail – one of the most prized relics in Christianity .
It was proffer to Fernando , a powerful Christian Spanish king , as a peace oblation by the ameer of a kingdom in the Moslem part of Spain at the time , Torres said .
But not so tight — there are over 200 artifacts in Europe suspected of being the one true Holy Grail . The authors have tried to expose the genuineness of some of the leading candidates .
Top image : CESAR MANSO / AFP / GETTY IMAGES .
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