Word: arimathea
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Tired of "all the Arthurian tripe about the Holy Grail," Novelist Costain has written his own version of what happened to the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. His hero is Basil of Antioch, a low-born artisan hired by Joseph of Arimathea to fashion a silver casing to hold the homely original. While young Basil is still wrestling with clay models, he also begins a long wrestle with sacred and profane love in the persons of 1) Deborra, the rich Christian girl he marries, and 2) Helena, a toothsome pagan baggage who has bewitched him with...
...only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year 70 A.D. . . . A man of speculative mind...
...sculpture from the time of Charlemagne is surrounded by plants listed in an old herbarium of the period. Most famed plant at Washington Cathedral is the Glastonbury Thorn, grown from a cutting from the British one which is supposed to have grown from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. The British Thorn blooms occasionally on Christmas. The U. S. Thorn, planted 30 years ago, did not bloom until 1918. Said Dean Bratenahl: "Perhaps the blooms have waited for a true Christmas, when the hearts of men should be filled with goodwill." Last Christmas the Glastonbury blooms were the best...
While Jesus was briefly dead Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea wound His corpse in a sheet...