These clothes he was afterwards to preserve along with the holy lance.

Three priests brought the golden reliquary that contained the fragment of the holy lance.

It was through him that He revealed the holy lance.'

Next, seated on an emaciated donkey, came Peter Bartholomew, carrying the reliquary of the holy lance on a purple cushion.

The same Peter Bartholomew who found the holy lance?' I glanced at the reliquary again in its shining forest of candles.

Even so, he had climbed a long way since he crawled out of the pit at Antioch clutching the fragment of the holy lance.

He touches the wound with the Holy Lance and, miraculously, it heals.

'He has even questioned the authenticity of the relic of the holy lance.'

Amfortas's wound was caused when a self-castrated magician called Klingsor seized the Holy Lance and stabbed him with it.

'Does anyone dare question the sanctity of the holy lance?

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'I swear by the holy lance .

But the news of the discovery in an Antioch church of the Holy Lance which had pierced the Savior's side restored their drooping spirits.

Raymond had traded on fresh visions of his clerk; and Arnold boldly attacked him in his citadel by denying the genuineness of the Holy Lance.

'Bring out the relic, the holy lance that pierced our Saviour's side, so that I may swear the truth of my vision.'