04-03-2007, 05:10 AM
Yes Byron it is! According to legend, which seem to be a dime a dozen with regard to the Holy Lance.
The one intriguing part of the Vienna Lance is that the little piece inset into the hole cut into the spear seems to be a highly decorated crucifixion nail. It certainly looks like a pilum head from those pictures
From what I remember, it is apparantly a genuine Roman artifact, or at least unable to be proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.
According to legend the spear at one time belonged to Constantine (a previous legendary possessor was the famed St. Maurice), whose mother collected various Christian relics, one of which was a nail used in the execution of Jesus. Before the Battle of Milvian Bridge, she supposedly set the nail into the Spear of Longinus before giving it to her son, and the rest is history, so the story goes....
Hopefully I didn't highjack your thread Jef!
The one intriguing part of the Vienna Lance is that the little piece inset into the hole cut into the spear seems to be a highly decorated crucifixion nail. It certainly looks like a pilum head from those pictures
From what I remember, it is apparantly a genuine Roman artifact, or at least unable to be proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt. According to legend the spear at one time belonged to Constantine (a previous legendary possessor was the famed St. Maurice), whose mother collected various Christian relics, one of which was a nail used in the execution of Jesus. Before the Battle of Milvian Bridge, she supposedly set the nail into the Spear of Longinus before giving it to her son, and the rest is history, so the story goes....
Hopefully I didn't highjack your thread Jef!
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