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Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florce, showing the lance piercing the side of Jesus on the cross (
The Holy Lance, also known as the Lance of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is the lance that is alleged to have pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.
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But not the Synoptic Gospels. The gospel states that the Romans planned to break Jesus' legs, a practice known as crurifragium, which was a method of hasting death during a crucifixion. Because it was the eve of the Sabbath (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown), the followers of Jesus needed to tomb him because of Sabbath laws. Just before they did so, they noticed that Jesus was already dead and that there was no reason to break his legs (and no bone will be brok
). To make sure that he was dead, a Roman soldier (named in extra-Biblical tradition as Longinus) stabbed him in the side.
One of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance (λόγχη) , and immediately there came out blood and water.— John 19:34 Longinus [ edit]
One Of The Soldiers With A Spear Pierced His Side
The name of the soldier who pierced Christ's side with a lonchē is not giv in the Gospel of John, but in the oldest known referces to the legd, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appded to late manuscripts of the 4th ctury Acts of Pilate, the soldier is idtified as a cturion and called Longinus (making the spear's Latin name Lancea Longini ).
A form of the name Longinus occurs in the Rabula Gospels in the year 586. In a miniature, the name ΛΟΓΙΝΟΣ (LOGINOS) is writt above the head of the soldier who is thrusting his lance into Christ's side. This is one of the earliest records of the name, if the inscription is not a later addition.
A Holy Lance relic is preserved at Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, in a loggia carved into the pillar above the statue of Saint Longinus.
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The first historical referce to a lance was made in AD 570 by an unknown pilgrim from Piacza (oft erroneously idtified with St. Antoninus of Piacza) in his descriptions of the holy places of Jerusalem, writing that he saw in the Basilica of Mount Zion the crown of thorns with which Our Lord was crowned and the lance with which He was struck in the side,
The alleged presce in Jerusalem of the relic is attested by Cassiodorus (c. 485–585) as well as by Gregory of Tours (c. 538–594), who had not actually be to Jerusalem.
The Holy Lance was among the relics captured, but one of Shahrbaraz's associates gave it to Nicetas who brought it to Constantinople later that year.
Statue Of Jesus And Saint Longinus, The Roman Soldier Who Pierced Christ In His Side With A Lance, In The Cathedral Of Leon Stock Photo
The point of the lance was th shrined with the crown of thorns in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. During the Frch Revolution these relics were removed to the Bibliothèque Nationale but the point subsequtly disappeared.
As for the larger portion of the lance, Arculf claimed he saw it at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre around 670 in Jerusalem.
Claim that the larger relic had be conveyed to Constantinople in the 8th ctury, possibly at the same time as the Crown of Thorns.
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At any rate, its presce at Constantinople seems to be clearly attested by various pilgrims, particularly Russians, and, though it was deposited in various churches in succession, it seems possible to trace it and distinguish it from the relic of the point.
Sir John Mandeville declared in 1357 that he had se the blade of the Holy Lance both at Paris and at Constantinople, and that the latter was a much larger relic than the former.
It is worth adding that Mandeville is not gerally regarded as one of the Middle Ages' most reliable witnesses, and his supposed travels are usually treated as an eclectic amalgam of myths, legds and other fictions.
The Piercing Of Jesus Christ On The Cross
The lance which pierced Our Lord's side was among the relics at Constantinople shown in the 1430s to Pedro Tafur, who added God grant that in the overthrow of the Greeks they have not fall into the hands of the emies of the Faith, for they will have be ill-treated and handled with little reverce.
Whatever the Constantinople relic was, it did fall into the hands of the Turks, and in 1492, Sultan Bayezid II st it to Pope Innoct VIII to courage the pope to continue to keep his brother and rival Cem prisoner.
Because of the presce of other rival lances in Paris (the point that had be separated from the lance), Nuremberg (see Holy Lance in Vina below), and Armia (see Holy Lance in Echmiadzin below).
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Innoct's tomb, created by Antonio del Pollaiuolo, features a bronze effigy of the pope holding the spear blade he received from Bayezid.
In the mid-18th ctury Pope Bedict XIV states that he obtained from Paris an exact drawing of the point of the lance, and that in comparing it with the larger relic in St. Peter's he was satisfied that the two had originally formed one blade.
The Holy Lance in Vina is displayed in the Imperial Treasury or Weltliche Schatzkammer (lit. Worldly Treasure Room) at the Hofburg Palace in Vina, Austria.
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In the tth ctury, the Holy Roman Emperors came into possession of the lance, according to sources from the time of Otto I (912–973).
In 1084, Hry IV had a silver band with the inscription Nail of Our Lord added to it. This was based on the belief that the nail embedded in the spear-tip was one that had be used for the Crucifixion of Jesus.
It was only in the thirteth ctury that the Lance became idtified with that of Longinus, which had be used to pierce Christ's side and had be drched in water and the blood of Christ.
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In 1273, the Holy Lance was first used in a coronation ceremony. Around 1350, Charles IV had a gold sleeve put over the silver one, inscribed Lancea et clavus Domini (Lance and nail of the Lord).
In 1424, Sigismund had a collection of relics, including the lance, moved from his capital in Prague to his birthplace, Nuremberg, and decreed them to be kept there forever.
Wh the Frch Revolutionary army approached Nuremberg in the spring of 1796, the local authorities turned over the Imperial Regalia to Johann Alois von Hügel, Chief Commissary of the Imperial Diet.
Crucifixion. Christ On The Cross After Side Has Been Pierced By Soldier's Spear. Women On Left, Soldiers On Right. Enamel By Leonard Limousin (c1505 C1577) French Painter, Limoges Stock Photo
Baron von Hügel took the regalia to Ratisbon for safekeeping, but by 1800 that city was also under threat of invasion, so he relocated them again to Passau, Linz, and Vina.
These movemts were conducted in secret, as the status of the regalia had not be resolved amid plans for the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Wh Nuremberg later appealed for the return of the regalia, the city's requests were easily dismissed by the Austrian Empire.
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote that the Imperial Insignia were still preserved in Vina and appeared to act as magical relics rather than as the visible guarantee of an everlasting bond of union. Wh the Habsburg State crumbled to pieces in 1918, the Austrian Germans instinctively raised an outcry for union with their German fatherland.
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During the Anschluss, wh Austria was annexed to Germany, the Nazis brought the Reichskleinodi to Nuremberg, where they displayed them during the September 1938 Party Congress. They th transferred them to the Historischer Kunstbunker, a bunker that had be built into some of the medieval cellars of old houses underneath Nuremberg Castle to protect historic art from air raids.
Most of the Regalia were recovered by the Allies at the d of the war, but the Nazis had hidd the five most important pieces in hopes of using them as political symbols to help them rally for a return to power, possibly at the command of Nazi Commander Heinrich Himmler.
Walter Horn – a Medieval studies scholar who had fled Nazi Germany and served in the Third Army under Geral George S. Patton – became a special investigator in the Monumts, Fine Arts, and Archives program after the d of the war, and was tasked with tracking the missing pieces down.
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After a series of interrogations and false rumors, Nuremberg city councilor Stadtrat Fries confessed that he, fellow-councilman Stadtrat Schmeiszner, and an SS official had hidd the Imperial Regalia on 31 March 1945, and he agreed to bring Horn's team to the site.
On 7 August, Horn and a U.S. army captain escorted Fries and Schmeiszner to the trance of the Panier Platz Bunker, where they located the treasures hidd behind a wall of masonry in a small room off of a subterranean corridor, roughly eighty feet below ground.
The Regalia were first brought back to Nuremberg castle to be reunited with the rest of the Reichskleinodi, and th transferred with the tire collection to Austrian officials the following January.
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