Holy Lance
A Holy Lance is conserved in Vagharshapat (previously known as Echmiadzin), the religious capital of Armenia. It was previously held in the monastery of Geghard. The first source that mentions it is a text "Holy Relics of Our Lord Jesus Christ", in a thirteenth-century Armenian manuscript. According to this text, the spear which pierced Jesus was to have been brought to Armenia by the Apostle Thaddeus. The manuscript does not specify precisely where it was kept, but the Holy Lance gives a description that exactly matches the lance, the monastery gate, since the thirteenth century precisely, the name of Geghardavank (Monastery of the Holy Lance).
Early Cornish texts
mcen217.1 In their company was a soldier called Longis. He was blind. He could
mcen217.2 not see at all. he had been a man of rank. a spear with a sharp point
mcen217.3 was put into his hands by the Jews to pierce the heart of jesus, the
mcen217.4 holy one.
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