The city of Venice is full of legends on ancient Christian relics also given the close economic relations with the Eastern world, and so obviously could not miss stories about Templars and the mystic Grail, the cup in which, according to legend, Joseph of Arimathea collected the blood of Christ.
The path this great relic in the city is one that leads to Constantinople, now Istanbul, a city conquered by the Crusaders and closely linked to the capital of Veneto. In particular, precisely during the Fourth Crusade knights and merchants brought to the city Middle Eastern culture and traditions as well as many treasures from the Turkish city as the four horses of copper present on the Basilica of San Marco and that they had the tradition of beautiful rubies for eyes. We know even from Constantinople would come from the Crown of Thorns of Jesus that Louis IX of France managed to escape the city to bring in France, at the Sainte Chapelle, then it would not be unthinkable that, in case it really existed, the Grail in his mystical journey had really arrived in the city.
The tradition wants it hidden in the throne of St. Peter, the seat where you would really sit the Apostle during his years at Antioch made up of a Muslim funeral stele and decorated with verses from the Quran today present in the church of San Pietro in Castello. It is said that this was then subsequently transferred to Bari, a city linked to the Venetian tradition of common interest such as the Saint Nicholas in the two cities share out the sacred relics. Some local traditions, then, they want the church of St. Barnabas had been buried the mummified body of a French crusader named Nicodemus Besant de-Mesurier, tied to the story of the translation of the mystical cup found in the area in 1612. In reality they have never been found documents about this gentleman.
The mysteries related to the Christian religion is not just about relics, but many are also traditions connected al'Inquisizione and Piazza San Marco, traces of memories narrow spread in one of the most beautiful squares in Italy and are often hidden in the eyes of the common traveler. Right corner of the Basilica, for example, there is a tradition that the stone used for the executions, while watching the first columns of the porch of the nearby Palazzo Ducale, we can see two different color from the others where, according to tradition, death sentences were read and performed in the square in front of or near the Campanile. That's so wonderful that the bell tower that stands in the square hides too gruesome memories, it is in the tradition of the execution of Cheb, in a cage iron suspended in a vacuum in which the condemned were exposed to public ridicule for long periods braving the weather and therefore the death almost as soon oncoming release. Also among the columns of the Ducal Palace, then, was offered the last hope of salvation, and in fact, on the side of the building that is offered to the sea was a column that still appears to stand consumed. The condemned was offered a last favor: if they were able to whirl around the same without ever falling from the narrow base on which rests, indeed impossible task.
[Andrea Romanazzi from acam.it]
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