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Text Box: Joseph hid the "Grail" in Chalice Well at Glastonbury for safekeeping. Another suggests he settled at Ynys Witrin (Glastonbury), but the Grail was taken to Corbenic where it was housed in a spectacular castle, guarded always by the Grail Kings, descendants of Joseph's daughter, St. Anna (Enygeus) and her husband, Brons. There is a wide variance of scholarly opinion on this subject, however, and a good deal of doubt exists as to whether Joseph ever came to Britain at all, for any purpose. However, the history of the Holy Grail seems to indicate he did. The Tradition of The Holy Grail: During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a group of monks left Glastonbury for Strata Florida Abbey, in South Wales, where they hoped to escape from the ravages of Henry VIII's commissioners. However, the Royal officials soon reached Strata Florida too and the monks were forced to flee over the hills to nearby Nanteos House. Here, the old Prior of Glastonbury became chaplain to the local lord, Mr. Powell, and the other monks became servants around the estate. So things carried on until the monks eventually started to die off. On his deathbed, the last monk revealed to Mr. Powell that his little group had brought with them, from Glastonbury, the Holy Grail which had been brought to Britain by their Abbey's founder, St. Joseph of Arimathea. This was subsequently entrusted to the Powell family "until the church shall claim her own". Subsequent History: The "Nanteos Cup" as the supposed Grail became known remained at the Manor, attracting many pilgrims and performing many apparent miracles until 1952. All this is well documented. At this date, the last of the Powells died. The house (and the cup) were then sold to a Major Merrilees, who later moved to Herefordshire, taking the Nanteos Cup with him. It is understood that it currently resides in a bank vault somewhere. It is a small wooden vessel (5" diameter, 3" deep) in a very poor state today, due to pilgrims' biting large

Text Box: chunks out of it, over the years, in order to aid recovery from their ills. There is one additional comment which must be made regarding the Holy Grail: It may well be in the home of a private individual in Wales. +

Text Box: died, and rose again from the dead, that everyone will go to heaven when they die, or at least those who believe He is God will go to heaven, or at least those who call themselves Christians will go to heaven, because the battle is won. The battle to which reference is made is the battle against going to hell, against the devil, against evil, against that which prevented salvation, the battle for salvation. Jesus Christ God won the battle for mankind but Saint Paul very plainly tells us we must complete the work begun in us by Christ. The battle, the war, for each individual soul, is not yet won for that battle must be won by each individual by each individual’s completing the work begun in each individual by Christ. There is another erroneous concept, that everyone wants to go to heaven, that everyone wants to go to someone’s concept of a better place than the here and now. There are many people who desire that any life after death be very similar to their life as it now is. Some of those for whom sex is the most important aspect of life do not desire a hereafter where sex is not prevalent. Some of those who manipulate others to their own ends do not desire a hereafter where this is no longer possible. For many sinners, a hereafter which does not include their favorite sins is a hereafter of which they desire no part, a hereafter in which they do not desire to partake. They do not desire the hereafter, the life after death, without sin, with Christ in heaven united with God in God’s holiness for all eternity. These individuals can be assured that their desire to not be united without sin with God in God’s holiness for all eternity will be granted. Hell awaits them. But those of us who do desire to be united without sin with God in God’s holiness for all eternity must do more than just desire it. We must work on it. We must complete that which Christ

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