Holy Lance

Holy lance Also known as Spear of Destiny,Holy Spear,Lance of Longinus ,The legend of Jesus in the cross of punishment by the Roman soldiers to confirm whether Jesus really have died because of torture, with a spear to stab the flanks of the location of Jesus, a spear, a holy gun. It and the Holy Grail,True Cross With the famous Christian sacred objects.


Michelangelo Magnus

The Bible does not seem to record the real name of the Roman soldiers, but in some of the biblical Apocrypha, such as: Acts of Pilate, In addition to the detailed records of Jesus from suffering and death process, also referred to the of Roman soldiers called Michelangelo Magnus.

History


According to legend, after the death of Jesus, Langnujisi then this gun player kept until it died. After the holy gun will spread in the early Christians, until falling into the hands of Constantine the Great. After the Western Roman Empire, St. guns disappear, once in the history of St. guns there have been several versions of the re-emergence. One of the most important version of the Hofburg Imperial Palace gun ".


300 years after the disappearance of the holy gun, the Frankish kingdom of Charlemagne claimed to regain the holy gun, and as a symbol of their rights. According to legend of Charlemagne in the campaign of his life has been wearing the gun, and thus the ability of clairvoyance, invincible. After the disintegration of Charlemagne Empire, Chuan-sheng guns fall into the Saxon royal family to open the ancestors of the East Frankish kingdom fowler by Henry I, Of the hand, followed by drop Ruhuohengsi Hohenstaufen royalLater, St. guns reached the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I
    Frederick I, with a holy gun conquests discuss territorial expansion, and participate in the Third Crusades. That in Sicily or the Near East shore crossing, he accidentally grab lost, and within a few minutes he killed.Subsequently, St. guns pass the red beard of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I.

Since this branch of the holy gun have been circulating in the Holy Roman Emperor in the hands, and multiple renovation and increase ornaments. 1084 It has been increased by a silver line in 1350 was a golden spear sheath.


However, in 1424 St. guns were sold to a business alliance in Nuremberg. Since then it has been treated as sacred objects on display in the church in Nuremberg. Protestantism is no longer attached importance to religious reform, sacred objects, holy gun therefore be forgotten in the corner of the church.


1796, Napoleon's army approaching Nuremberg (Nurnberg in). Napoleon is rumored desire to win the holy gun, therefore it was the locals in advance forwarded to the Austrian Habsburgs, save in the Hofburg Imperial Palace

To the modern Hitler, Nazi Germany is also interested in the holy gun. In 1938, after the Anschluss, the St. guns again be sent back to Nuremberg. Nuremberg, the post-World War II, Allied bombing, St. guns to be moved to a special set of underground vault. Until April 30, 1945, San guns finally occupation of Nuremberg, the U.S. military. Some urban legends that Patton is the first to win the holy gun and killed two hours after Hitler namely suicide.

Documented after the U.S. by someone else take the lead in the holy gun, but discovered only a few months after the U.S. occupation of Nuremberg. To resolve some legal issues, the holy gun was returned to the Hofburg Imperial Palace, and still preserved.

As the most famous Saint gun, archaeologists generally believed that this matter is the period of Charlemagne, or even later cast fake. Some literature also suggests that, at least in the period of Charlemagne Holy gun body had been re-processed. An identification of the Hofburg Imperial Palace gun shows 2003 frame and the edge is indeed the product of the AD 7-8 century, the whole gun only several nails during the 1st century AD, the genuine