What does he make of the alleged links between the Holy Grail and Glastonbury? “If Joseph had really decided to go to Britain and take the cup that had held Jesus’ Blood with him,” he says, “it would have been easy to do. The same character can pop up in history at opposite ends of the empire.” “And we know that people were very mobile in Roman times. There wasn’t a single national border to cross,” he observes. “So, in some ways, it was easier to go from Palestine to Britain then than it is now, because it was all one country.
Speaking to the Register, he explained that, by about 50 A.D., the Romans had thoroughly subdued the southern part of Britain. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and author of The Grail Code: Quest for the Real Presence (2006).
“First of all, it’s important not to dismiss the possibility that Joseph of Arimathea actually did come to Glastonbury,” says Michael Aquilina, executive vice president of the St. Could Blake’s words, as some claim, reference historic events linked to the English town of Glastonbury? Legends claim that Joseph of Arimathea was a regular visitor at Glastonbury and that he brought the Holy Infant with him on one of those journeys.
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