Where can we find first mention of the Holy grail?

Question

Hint - not in the Bible. Is it tue that the crusaders briought it back from jerusalem? Give me a date for the first appearance of this idea and its source.

wikepedia's wrong. When does grail become fetishistic object of veneration, NOt in Bible, not by spaniards, who invented the spanish inquisition,

full marks utuk. A fiction dating from 11th century,]. So why all the fuss? Same reason people make a fetish out of Jesus.

Answer 1

"The Grail is first featured in Perceval, le Conte du Graal (The Story of the Grail) by Chrétien de Troyes, who claims he was working from a source book given to him by his patron, Count Philip of Flanders. In this incomplete poem, dated sometime between 1180 and 1191, the object has not yet acquired the implications of holiness it would have in later works. While dining in the magical abode of the Fisher King, Perceval witnesses a wondrous procession in which youths carry magnificent objects from one chamber to another, passing before him at each course of the meal. First comes a young man carrying a bleeding lance, then two boys carrying candelabras. Finally, a beautiful young girl emerges bearing an elaborately decorated graal, or grail."

http://www.crystalinks.com/holygrail.html

As this article points out, Grail mythology is completely absent in eastern Christian sources (such as Jerusalem). It is a western European concept that dates to the late 12th century. Considering the major changes that took place in the Anglican Church in the 11th century, it seems likely that the Grail represented the Eucharistic cup of the Anglo-Saxon Church, which was all but exterminated by the Normans. Elements of Celtic mythology were probably added in as well, creating a myth to describe how Anglo-Saxon Christianity started with Joseph shortly after the time of Christ, and continued down through the centuries until the Normans broke the Anglo-Saxon/Celtic line of Apostolic Succession.

Answer 2

The earliest mention we know of is in a retelling of the King Arthur legend called Le Conte du Graal, written in the last quarter of the 12th century by the French poet Chretien de Troyes. Other writers during the years after wrote "histories" of the Grail that purported to trace its origin to the time of Christ.

Answer 3

Ok, you may want to try marvel comics, or the disney channel.
Study something more worthy. (pssst. the Bible)

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Chalice

good source of information on the grail