Where is the spear that stabbed jesus

The shaft of the spear has long disappeared, there only remains the head in two sections and a large nail used to connect the sections. The nail is rumored to be one of the actual nails from the True Cross.

Today, the Spear rests again in the Hofburg Treasure House. A copy can be seen in Cracow, Poland. And to confuse matters, another Spear, claimed to be the true one is in Paris following St. Louis return from the Crusades. That one is now encased in one of the pillars supporting the dome of St.

Peter's Basilica. Each is very old and looks very similar. Who can tell which is the real one? When possessed with care and reverence it carried many kings and emperors to glorious victory in battles.

With it, for example, Theodoric forced Attila the Hun into retreat, the only one to do so! It is covered in a inscribed sheet of silver and gold, with tradition tying it to the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in the 10th Century. Robert Feather, a metallurgist, examined the spear for a BBC television special.

The first mention of this spear is in AD, when a pilgrim touring holy areas of Jerusalem writes of viewing " T he crown of thorns with which Our Lord was crowned and the lance with which He was struck in the side. The point is lost in the late s during the upheaval of the French Revolution. The body of this spear, currently held in Saint Peter's Basilica, also passed through Constantinople.

Turks destroyed Constantinople in the 15th Century, but Bayezid II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sent the lance fragment and a yearly monetary tribute of approximately 4, ounces of gold to Pope Innocent II in exchange for indefinitely holding the Sultan's brother and pretender to the Turkish throne, Prince Jem, as a prisoner in Rome.

The point of the spear is never physically reunited with the fragment within Saint Peter's Basilica. The only confirmation of a "proper fit" came when a drawing of the tip made prior to its loss in the French revolution received by Pope Benedict XIV is compared to the large fragment held at Saint Peter's Basilica around A third spear, the Echmiadzin Lance, is held in Armenia, and often considered in discussions of the Spear of Destiny.

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