Relics Claimed To Be The Holy Lance
There have been three or four major relics that are claimed to be the Holy Lance or parts of it.
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Famous quotes containing the words relics, claimed, holy and/or lance:
“Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“Well, if I were going to haunt anybody, this would certainly be the house I’d do it in.”
—Robb White, and William Castle. Lance Schroeder (Richard Long)