Everyone's heard that for many centuries, people have been searching for the holy grail.

The cup of Christ that we all suppose has some sort of magical healing powers.

But our own search doesn't go very far once we discover that there's no mention of it,

whatsoever, in the Bible.

Not a single one.

If that's true, what is the source of the stories of this greatest of all artifacts

from Christendom?

Then most of all, where can we find the damn thing?

The true history of the holy grail is right now unskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Draining the Holy Grail.

Regardless of whether they come in the person of Indiana Jones or Monty Python,

fictional characters have been pursuing the holy grail for centuries.

It is, according to tradition, the cup from which Jesus drank at the last supper,

and that held his blood as he died on the cross,

and consequently would be the most valuable and extraordinary artifact in the history of Christendom.

Does it exist today in the vaults of some great cathedral?

Was it used by its first century owners until it crumbled away?

What do the scriptures tell us about who had it last, where it was, and where it might be now?

Today we're going to see what's actually known about the holy grail,

and if we're lucky, we may conclude where it might be.

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