Valencia Cathedral
Gothic cathedral chapel enshrining an ancient agate cup venerated as the true Holy Grail.
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This guide to Valencia Cathedral follows a single object: a dark agate cup that King Martin of Aragon traded a monastery a golden chalice for in 1399, convinced he now held the cup Christ raised at the Last Supper. You'll hear how it passed through Aragon's kings for decades before Alfonso the Magnanimous gave it to this cathedral in 1436, and how two popes later raised it at Mass within these same walls. The guide also lingers on Martin himself, and the story told of the moment he died in Barcelona.
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