Holy Lance
The name of the soldier who pierced Christ's side with a "lonchē" is not given in the Gospel of John, but in the oldest known references to the legend, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appended to late manuscripts of the 4th century "Acts of Pilate", the soldier is identified as a centurion and called Longinus (making the spear's Latin name "Lancea Longini").
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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