In this legend there is no mention of Glastonbury but from Glastonbury we have another account of the coming of Joseph to Britain, which makes no mention of the Holy Grail. Joseph is said to have brought to Britain.
This story was afterwards incorporated into the famous legend of the Holy Grail, the dish or cup used at the Last Supper, which St.
He appears also in the so called apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as Acts of Pilate, in which we read that, because he had asked for the body of Jesus, he was put into prison by the Jews, from which he was delivered by Our Lord Himself on the night of the Resurrection.Īnother story tells how he was again imprisoned for forty years because he continued to preach the Gospel in Jerusalem, and that during all that time he was miraculously sustained by light and food from heaven. 48 the Jews, much incensed against Lazarus, Mary Magdalen, Martha, Joseph of Arimathea and others, put them into a ship without oars or sails or pilot, and that by divine providence they were safely carried across the sea to the harbour of Marseilles, whence they travelled to Britain. Joseph afterwards? The New Testament is silent about him and so it may be safely assumed that he continued to live in or near Jerusalem until his death.Īlthough reliable history is also silent about him, legend and romance have been busy with his memory.įor instance it is said that in the time of Charles the Great, when barbarians were ravaging the Holy Land, the Patriarch of Jerusalem sent his body for greater safety to an abbey in France, where it disappeared, being stolen, as some said, by monks on pilgrimage.Īnother chronicler states that in the year A.D. Joseph took the body down and, with the help of Nicodemus the Pharisee, wrapt it in a linen sheet with spices, laid it in a new tomb hewn out of the rock, which he had made for himself in a garden nearby, rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. Pilate, after he had heard from the centurion on guard at the foot of the Cross that Our Lord was already dead, granted his request. Joseph of Arimathea was a wealthy member of the high Jewish council called the Sanhedrin, and that on the day of the Crucifixion, when evening came, he went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Did he really honour Glastonbury by bringing the Holy Grail which King Arthur and his Knights are reputed to have so bravely found and lost again to posterity?įrom the New Testament we learn that St. The Holy Grail! The Glastonbury Thorn! King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table! The Twelve Hides! What a wealth of legend springs to mind when we associate St.
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