The Virgin and the Grail

About this book

"Some fifty years before Chretien de Troyes wrote what is probably the first and certainly the most influential story of the Holy Grail, images of the Virgin Mary with a simple but radiant bowl (called a "grail" in the local dialect) appeared in churches in the Spanish Pyrenees. In this book, Joseph Goering explores the links between these sacred images and the origins of one of the West's most enduring legends."--Jacket.