«[...] The gospel was the day of Preparation, the Jews, because the bodies should not remain on the cross during the Sabbath - was a day that Sabbath - they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and the other who was crucified with him. When they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, did not break his legs, but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance and immediately there came out blood and water. [...]» (GV 19, 31-34).
This passage from the Gospel of St. John, shows a typical event at the time of the Crucifixion. As for the Jews the cross was a sign of curse (cf. Galatians 3:12), prescribing the burial of corpses hanging from before sunset because they do not defile the holy land. Per accertare la morte dei condannati, venivano loro spezzate le gambe; solo a Gesù venne risparmiato ciò (non gli sarà spezzato alcun osso - Esodo 12,46), ma un pretoriano gli sferrò un colpo di lancia nel costato procurandogli uno squarcio dal quale fuoriuscì sangue ed acqua.
Al di là del significato che la chiesa attribuisce a questo evento, resta la considerazione che - secondo la leggenda nata attorno a ciò - da quel momento la lancia acquistò poteri miracolosi.
Chi era il pretoriano?
L'uomo che sferrò il colpo di lancia nel costato di Gesù fu, secondo una tradizione desumibile da alcuni vangeli apocrifici tra i quali quello di Nicodemo, il centurione romano Gaio Cassius Longinus, the name Longinus, derives from the greek longkhé lancia.Sembra which means it was also known as Longinus Isaurico by the name of the Roman province from which it came (now Turkey), although according to other traditions of the original would be 'Italia.Si says also that after the lance struck Jesus, and after witnessing the miracle of water and blood gushed from the wound, Longinus was seized by a religious crisis that led him to convert. The conversion would take place - according to another tradition - when tearing the side of Jesus, a few drops of blood began to run down the shaft of the spear, and from there fell ill on the eyes of the centurion when converted guarendoli.Una avrebbe intrapreso un'opera di diffusione evangelica iniziando dalla città di Mantova. Ed infatti in un opera di Ippolito Donesmondi (La Istoria Eclesiastica di Mantova, 1612) si dice che Longino sarebbe arrivato a Mantova nel 36 d.C. portando con sé un'ampolla del prezioso sangue di Gesù ed un pezzo della spugna che fu usata per dargli da bere aceto(1).Verso il 37 d.C. Longino sarebbe stato decapitato. La sua figura è comunque controvera, infatti con lo stesso nome si indicano, anche nella stessa tradizione cristiana, due personaggi: il soldatoi della lancia ed il centurione che proclamò la divinità di Cristo dopo la sua morte in croce(2).Tutto ciò, comunque, non intaca l'importanza storico religiosa di due reliquie òegati these facts: the Lateral Blood and the Spear of Longinus. Lateral SangueEra
The so called because descended from the side of Jesus after his entry into the "history" of religious relics (around 36 AD) remained hidden until about the year 800, when you randomly found. The discovery aroused the interest of two famous personages of the time: Leo III (3) and Charlemagne (742 - 814). Both went to Mantua (the site of discovery) and here Leo III and Charlemagne founded the bishopric takes a particle of the relics to bring Francia.Quando around 924 the city of Mantua was besieged by the barbarians, from Hungary, the Blood dividing people hide Lateral in due parti. Una Parte fu sotterrata nella città vecchia, vicino alla cattedrale; l'altra parte fu sotterrata nel luogo del primo ritrovamento, l'orto dell'oratorio di Sant'Andrea. La leggenda vuole che dopo tutto il popolo misteriosamente perse il ricordo dei luoghi in cui queste reliquie furono celate.Nel 1050 circa, il Lateral sangue venne ritrovato: un mendicante cieco vede in sogno Sant'Andrea, che gli dice dove scavare. Sul luogo del ritrovamento venne edificata una Chiesa per Sant'Andrea che sarà distrutta 4 secoli dopo da Ludovico Gonzaga per edificare l'attuale basilica progettata dall'Alberti.
La Lancia di LonginoBen più importante è forse il destino storico che toccò alla Lancia di Longino. Abbiamo già visto come la sua tradizione sia nata da quelle poche righe che il Vangelo di Giovanni dedica all'evento (vedi prima parte). Da subito diviene simbolo misetrioso ed oggetto dotato di immensi poteri, legandosi immediatamente nelle tradizioni ad un altro mito: Il Sacro Graal(4).Sacro Graal e Lancia di Longino, appaiono insieme nella Processione del Graal descritta nel 1190 da Chretien de Troys.La Lancia di Longino ritorna in un poema epico irlandese in cui Melora, la figlia del mitico re Artù, la usa per sciogliere un incantesimo di cui era vittima Orlando.La Lancia di Longino nella storiaSecondo quanto è possibile stabilire, i primi personaggi storici che si interessarono alla Lancia furono Costantino Il Grande (280 - 337) e Federico Barbarossa (1122 - 1190) who used it as a powerful talismano.Carlo Hammer (5), used it to avert the invasion of the Arabs. But no doubt the character who established a relationship with a spear and morbid visceral, almost insane love, was Adolf Hitler.La Spear of Longinus and the HitlerEra 1909 when a young Adolf Hitler was wandering the halls of the museum welcomed at the Hofburg in Vienna. Among the many exhibits, one immediately caught his interest: the Lanze Heilige (The Spear of Longinus). So in 1938, when Hitler with a very questionable act that Anschluss, annexed Austria to Germany was free to be able to achieve a the most secret dreams: owning the Spear of Longinus.
At this point you might romanticize the scene. Hitler formally approaches the casket that holds the spear, the fearful respect and opens with ill-concealed courage. Note the spear and slowly gets up and catches it on himself. Here, at that precise moment he had heard that the owner of mondo.Dopo Nazi dictator took the spear, it was transported to Nuremberg, where it was placed as a relic in the Church of Santa Caterina. The story now has shown us that in reality the Spear of Longinus Nazi dittaore not kind to those outcomes and favorable miraculous that the same aspettava.Dopo the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler ordered that the spear was taken to a shelter in test bomb: an old tunnel under the castle of Nuremberg. After the attack final allied to Nazi Germany on 13 October 1944, it began to spread legends about the existence of a secret place that contained immense tesori.Nell 'April 1945 Nuremberg was occupied and the Mayor of the city - only aware of the hiding place of lance - committed suicide. According to some, in fact, the mayor "was suicide," because after her death, her apartment was cleaned thoroughly, as if someone was trying to hide qualcosa.Gli allies continued research, Churchill had the same research as a priority and the Spear finally, at 14.10 on April 30, 1945, the same day and maybe the same time that Hitler committed suicide in Berlin, the Spear of Longinus was recovered by the Americans. General Patton, it is said, was about to succumb to the temptation to possess it for himself. But then his exceptional intelligence took precedence his common sense, and the Spear was returned to Austria, the country where you can still admire the Wel-tliche Schatzkammer Hofburg in Vienna. Legend Legend
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In a book published in the state of Illinois (6), edited by Col. Howard A. Buechner and Capt. Wilhelm Bernhardt you can read that in all likelihood Himmler (7) made by a craftsman probably make an exact copy of the Japanese launch and it was this copy to be the protagonist of the vicissitudes just illustrate.Quela evening (the evening of the annexation of Austria to Germany), according to that publication, the Spear was loaded onto a U-Boat 530 and then hidden on the ice of Antarctica. From here, later, was recovered from a mysterious Order of the Knights of the Holy Lance, which preserved with a goal to maintain justice and peace in the world.
The Spear Coming from space
According to a tradition dating back to the Celts, some creatures from outer space, deified by the people with whom they came into contact, they would have reigned in ancient times in Ireland. When they leave, these visitors had paid homage to their subjects with four magic items between where the so-called LANCIA of Lugh, the wondrous weapon which ends resulting sparks and dripping blood. Tradition says that it is such a powerful weapon that when not in use must be immersed in a cauldron filled with blood and poison to prevent destroying everything around them.
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