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An artifact said to grant mystical power to
anyone who wields it, present throughout

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multiple great battles and possessed by
multiple great leaders, fought over and...

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throughout history.

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Today we will be taking a look at the Spear
of Destiny here on Mystery Archives.

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The spear originally belonged to a Roman
given the name Longinus.

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It is said that when Longinus pierced the
side of Christ at the end of his crucifixion,

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the Christ blood flowed upon the lance and
onto Longinus' face, and his eye was cured.

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Longinus then converted as a convinced
believer that Christ was the Son of God an...

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later be cantonized into sainthood.

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Once the blood of Christ flowed upon the
spear, it is said that it was ordained wit...

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power.

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After this event took place, the spear was
returned to a nearby armory.

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Then in 66 AD the armory was seized during
the Jewish revolts and the spear disappeared.

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Early Christian tradition said that it was
delivered into safe hands, hidden away and

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protected during the Jewish revolts and the
subsequent Roman purges thereafter.

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Eighty years later in 135 AD, Emperor Hadrian
sought to destroy the last relics of Christ

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and ordered the total destruction of
Jerusalem.

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All Jews were expelled from the city, but
those who were followers of Christ were...

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as a minority in the Greco-Roman city.

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So what happened to the spear?

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What is known is that the Catholic Church
kept the remains of saints, but Christ left

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no personal relics, so the lance that had
pierced his side became a treasured and close

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guarded secret.

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With the passing of time, the legend of the
Holy Lance grew and grew.

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Soon this inanimate object became a mystical
symbol of power and faith.

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People believed it had power, so therefore it
did.

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Soon this idea overtook even the most
powerful of rulers, thus the Holy Lance...

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object of unbelievable obsession.

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The spear that had pierced the side of Christ
was kept hidden for over 300 years after

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his death.

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Then, during the greatest archaeological
expedition of the ancient world, the...

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it was found.

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The excavation strangely enough was ordered
by Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine.

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After she had a dream where she was led to
the holy sites of Jesus of Nazareth, there

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was a temple of Venus within the city.

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Helena ordered that the temple be demolished,
and underneath the foundation, they found

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a tomb, the tomb which they believed to be
the tomb of Christ.

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Helena's excavations also later revealed the
place of Christ's crucifixion, and even

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stranger and more dramatic, they also found
Jesus' crown of thorns, some of the nails

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used during his crucifixion, and the wooden
cross which he died upon.

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At first, several wooden crosses were found,
and it's said that in order to determine

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which cross was indeed the one used in
Christ's crucifixion, Helena had the corps...

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brought in.

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The corpse was placed on the first two to no
effect, but the third cross, had the corpse

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laid upon it, caused the corpse to sit back
up, subsequently reviving the man.

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This spectacle was apparently witnessed by
multiple people, and carefully documented

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by those witnesses and historians of the
time, and was taken as a true sign of...

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that that cross was indeed the one.

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The magical power of these holy relics to the
people at the time were believed without

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question, this belief was also held by the
Emperor Constantine himself.

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In the year 312 AD, prior to the great battle
of Milvian Bridge, Constantine looked toward

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the midday sun, where he said he saw a cross
of light.

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Under this cross were the words, by this,
conquer.

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Because of this, Constantine adopted the
cross as a symbol of his rule, embraced...

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and became the ruler of the entire Roman
Empire.

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As a result of this conversion, Constantine
ordered a massive church building program

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as a sign of his devotion, and encouraged
frequent pilgrimage to the holy sites.

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Because of this, we have our first written
historical account of the whereabouts of

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the lance after its rediscovery, from one of
those pilgrims.

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He said he went into the basilica in the
middle of Jerusalem, and there he saw the

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holy lance, erected in such a way that it
formed a cross.

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Constantine did not personally possess the
lance, but he did possess the nails used

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during the crucifixion.

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He had them turned into symbols of his
empire.

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One of the nails was fitted into a crown
which he wore, and the other was made into...

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He used this newly crafted lance to trace out
the boundaries of his new city,...

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which would later become the capital of the
Roman Empire, and which would also survive

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for a thousand years, even after the fall of
the Western Empire.

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The lance and the crown were sacred relics,
denoting power.

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Constantine brought them to Constantinople,
which proved to be a wise decision.

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When the Western Empire fell to the barbarian
tribes, various leaders of those tribes,

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including Attila the Hun, demanded the lance
as part of their treaty with Rome.

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Even pagan warriors believed in the mystical
power of the lance.

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But the keepers of these relics, the leaders
and popes of the 5th century, did not hand

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them over.

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Both remained under the watchful eye of the
Byzantine emperors until the Persians sacked

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Jerusalem in 614 AD.

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During this invasion by the Persians, the tip
of the blade of the original spear was

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broken off, and the person who managed to
break it off escaped to Constantinople.

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When the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
recaptured Jerusalem in 670, he restored t...

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to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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Although the lance blade was now broken, its
perceived mystical power did not diminish.

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It increased.

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There were now two sites that could claim
ownership of the lance, in which Christ's

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blood flowed.

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The shaft and the neck of the original lance
remained in Jerusalem, and the broken tip

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in Constantinople.

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After this time, the spear was held by
multiple leaders and dynasties.

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25 years before he were to become king, the
Pope gifted him a lance, who he said had

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been carried by Constantine in battle.

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Charlemagne the Great, the King of France,
ruled from 768 until his death in 814.

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One of the enduring details of his rule was
that he possessed the Holy Lance.

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He was the first in a long line of leaders to
use the power of the lance to hold his

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Holy Empire together.

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He was said to have carried the spear into 47
victorious battles, but died shortly after

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dropping the spear.

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After Charlemagne's death, the Holy Lance
became the trophy of kings throughout all

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of Europe.

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In the early 900s it appeared in the
ownership of the Saxon King of England.

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He sold it to an Italian count, who gave it
as a gift to King Rudolf of Burgundy.

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Rudolf, knowing its importance to the Holy
Roman Empire, ransomed it.

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He made a deal with Henry I of Germany,
trading the lance for an entire province i...

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The lance in the early Germanic world was a
sign and symbol of rulership, a weapon that

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was passed through a religious ceremony from
ruler to ruler.

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Henry I is considered the founder of Germany.

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He would have also become the first of many
kings and emperors to covet the lance.

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He believed himself to be the rightful heir
to the Holy Roman Empire of Constantine,

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but the current pope did not.

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This consequently began a struggle of power
between the spiritual and secular rulers that

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would last for centuries.

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Henry sought to prove his rule by collecting
holy relics, and he built a special chapel

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to house them.

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Upon his death, the lance was passed to his
son, Otto.

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Otto, at the Battle of Bergen, prayed with
the lance in hand until his army was...

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His success in war against the Hungarians and
the Poles put him first in line for the

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title of Holy Roman Emperor.

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In 955, he won a shattering victory over the
Hungarian invaders.

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He crushed their power, and due to this,
people of the time believed he was more th...

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and should be honored with some kind of
imperial office.

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Otto believed that he had won the battle due
to his possession of the Holy Lands.

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Interestingly enough, Otto had copies of the
lance made, which he then gave to the kings

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of Hungary and Poland after touching them to
the original lance.

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The lands in which he had conquered at this
time had become his allies.

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Otto was well aware that the original spear
of Longinus was in the east, but the...

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spear in which he possessed had taken on a
life of its own.

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Otto's grandson, Otto III, later enhanced the
spear by adding another nail from the

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cross of Christ to the artifact.

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Afterwards, again it was carried into battle,
and again Holy Roman Emperors were...

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thus making the Holy Roman Lance a divine
symbol of Germanic power.

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In 1250, during the reign of Frederick II,
the lance was moved to Nuremberg, where it

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stayed for the next 550 years.

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In 1350, Charles IV took it upon himself to
engrave what him and his men already...

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that this was the true lance and nail of
Christ.

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But what about the appearance of other
lances?

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It seemed that whenever there was a great
battle to decide the fate of an empire of

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Europe, there was always an appearance of a
holy lance on the winning side.

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Some believed this to be motivation for the
great crusades.

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In 1095, the Emperor of Constantinople wrote
a letter to the Pope asking for aid in the

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form of military assistance in his war with
the Turks.

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At a Congress of Kings, the Pope used this
letter to attack the nobility present, using

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their sin as a tool of motivation to have
them mobilize forces and go save Jerusalem.

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Thus the armies began to descend upon
Jerusalem, beginning the great crusades.

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Ahead of these knights lay many hardships,
spells of disease, and famine, but they...

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on anyways.

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Upon reaching Jerusalem, the crusaders saw a
large buildup of Muslim forces hoping to

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discourage the armies sent to liberate the
holy city.

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Then in May 1098, the crusaders caught a
break.

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A traitor secretly led the crusaders into the
city in the middle of the night, and

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by dawn, the city was theirs.

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But it seemed that they had only traded one
hardship for another, because shortly after,

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another large Muslim army descended upon the
city.

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They were tired, angry, and outnumbered.

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The situation looked dire.

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Then a soldier stepped forward and said he
had a vision from St. Andrew.

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He said he knew where to find the holy lance
of Christ.

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In front of skeptics, the soldier began to
dig in the basement of St. Anthony's...

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and found an ancient lance.

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Upon possessing it, the starved, exhausted
crusader forces attacked their outnumbering

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foe, and miraculously, they won.

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The victory was attributed to the lance,
which the crusaders believed to be the actual

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spear of Christ.

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The spear was then sent to Constantinople,
whereby now the supposed original spear was

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already being kept.

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The appearance of now a total of three lances
caused great confusion at the time.

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All three were now housed in Constantinople,
but the Armenians also said to be in...

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of a holy lance as well.

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And they also believed that their spear was
the true relic of the crucifixion.

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In 1204 AD, crusaders stormed the city
linking east to west, and the lances becam...

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of Baldwin II.

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In 1241, he sold the relics, including the
tip of the original spear, to King Louis

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of France, who then built a special room to
house them in Paris, along with his other

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collectibles.

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It was here that the relics stayed until the
French Revolution, and after the French

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Revolution, the tip remained in France, but
the other spears disappeared, or so it...

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As time progressed, the beliefs in relics and
mysticism gave way to knowledge and reason,

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starting during the Renaissance.

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As the honeymoon of the Renaissance began to
fade, the bleak realization of reality

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and industrialism set in.

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Once again, people began to believe in great
quests and mystical powerful artifacts.

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These dreams would enter into the 20th
century.

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The Holy Roman Empire had begun with the
reign of King Charlemagne in 800 AD, and...

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years later, when Napoleon conquered Austria
in the year 1800.

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It's said that Napoleon attempted to seize
the lance during his taking of Austria, but

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it was smuggled out of Vienna before he could
obtain it, and it ended up in the possession

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of the Habsburg family, along with the
remnants of the Empire.

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The Habsburg family had ruled the Empire
since the 13th century.

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For over 100 years, they had presided over
the ancient house which possessed the battle

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trophies of Christianity.

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They were the symbols of power for the old
Roman Empire.

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It's believed that Kaiser Wilhelm II was
briefly in possession of the spear before

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it found its way to the Habsburg Treasury
House in Vienna.

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The dreams, as mentioned before, of mystical
knights, quests, holy grails, and ancient

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artifacts were brought to life by a Germanic
composer named Richard Wagner in the 19th...

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From these stories, Wagner composed an opera
named Parsifal, a story about Teutonic...

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in search of the Holy Grail.

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The key to their success was the ownership of
the Holy Lands.

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Wagner's Germanic-inspired mythology within
his operas carried into the 20th century,

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and in 1912, during a performance of Parsifal
in Vienna, an unemployed artist was...

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absorbed in the magic of past Germanic
greatness.

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His name was Adolf Hitler.

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Hitler was very familiar with the lands and
the possession of the Habsburg collection

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in Vienna.

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After all, it had been owned by all his
heroes, such as Frederick Barbarossa and O...

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Great, the emperors of the First Reich.

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Upon visiting the collection, Hitler would
write this,

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26 years later, on March 12, 1938, Hitler

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rode into Vienna to claim it for the Third
Reich, the same day as he annexed Austria.

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It was shipped via an armored SS train to
Nuremberg.

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Heinrich Himmler, the notorious leader of the
SS, was documented later founding the

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Annenerbe.

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The Annenerbe was a registered study group
for primordial intellectual history and...

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ancestral heritage.

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Himmler took it upon himself to find funding
for this, made himself present at meetings

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to make sure things were done right, found
archaeologists, historians, and researchers

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by the dozens, and he sent them to dig up
historical sites to find relics and to find

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the bones of Henry I among others.

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Henry I was greatly admired by Himmler as the
founder of Germany, and he allegedly believed

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himself to be a direct descendant of him.

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Hitler took over the church where Henry had
once housed his collection of relics, and

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it was there that he composed and performed
SS religious-style ceremonies.

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After the Nazi renovation of the famous
castle Wewelsburg, Himmler had rooms...

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fit his favorite eras of German history.

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He slept in the Henry I room.

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When Hitler seized the spear from the
Habsburg treasury in Vienna, Himmler hoped...

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would give him the lance, but all he received
was a copy.

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The real one was taken to St. Catherine
Cathedral in Nuremberg, the city where it ...

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resided in during the First Reich.

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The lance was exhibited at rallies held in
Nuremberg in 1938 and 1939.

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Towards the end of the war, on April 20,
1945, General Mark Clark of the U.S. 7th A...

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a lance underneath the Nuremberg fortress.

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Some interesting conspiracy theories and
rumors say that when Hitler lost possessio...

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spear, he committed suicide in the bunker
underneath Berlin.

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Others say that the Nazis in fact made
multiple duplicates of the spear, and the ...

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was found was indeed not the true spear of
destiny.

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Others that the Nazis never possessed the
spear at all, but rather a clone of the...

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No one can say for sure, but the majority of
the claims have been disproven.

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The copy of the lance that Otto the Great
gave to the Polish people is still in Krakow

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Cathedral today.

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The Armenian lance is still in full
possession of the Armenians, and the shaft...

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lance is still in possession of the Vatican.

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But the lance of Antioch, the one found by
the Crusaders, has been lost to history, as

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has the lance of Constantine.

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So what happened to the real spear of
destiny?

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No one knows for sure.

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It seems to have been lost to the sands of
time.

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But what does matter is faith.

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Faith that began over 2,000 years ago on a
desolate hill outside of Jerusalem with the

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execution of a carpenter from Nazareth named
Jesus.