{"id":3065,"date":"2007-02-06T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T09:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/after-the-grail.html"},"modified":"2007-02-06T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T09:08:30","slug":"after-the-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/after-the-grail.html","title":{"rendered":"After the Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"

….the "Aryan" Holy Grail<\/a><\/p>\n

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Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, made a secret wartime mission to an abbey in Spain in search of what he believed was the Aryan Holy Grail, a new book claims. <\/p>\n

Himmler visited the famous Montserrat Abbey near Barcelona where he thought he would find the Grail which Jesus Christ was said to have used to consecrate the Last Supper.<\/p>\n

According to The Desecrated Abbey, by Montserrat Rico G\u00f3ngora, the Reichsf\u00fchrer-SS thought if he could lay claim to the Holy Grail it would help Germany win the war and give him supernatural powers.<\/p>\n

The book claims that, far from being the King of the Jews, Himmler shared the outlandish belief with other leading Nazis that Jesus Christ was actually descended from Aryan stock.<\/p>\n

G\u00f3ngora writes that Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand man, believed Jacob was of Aryan blood and his descendants, including Jesus Christ, were Aryan too.<\/p>\n

G\u00f3ngora has interviewed a former monk who was ordered by his superiors to greet Himmler during the visit in 1940.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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