Posted 15 July 2012 - 01:09 PM
Image credit: CC 2.0 Allan chapmanDan Green: On March 12th 2010, against all odds and ahead of that summer's world cup finals in Africa, the 36.5 centimeters tall, 5kg solid gold chalice shaped soccer World Cup was lowered into Sincil Bank, home of lowly Conference National league Lincoln city football club, by helicopter as a token acknowledgement of the club's 125th anniversary. Nowhere else was it making an appearance within the UK. This was an amazing synchronicity as the symbology of the 'Blade and the Chalice' to modern Grail hunters is even mentioned in Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code'. The helicopter (blade) bringing the world cup (a golden chalice) – to Lincoln. After its arrival it next went to Paris where Brown's novel placed the final resting place of Mary Magdalene.
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