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 (18171862)
“To be claimed as good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (18051872)
“Well, if I were going to haunt anybody, this would certainly be the house Id do it in.”
—Robb White, and William Castle. Lance Schroeder (Richard Long)