is it possible for blood/flesh to remain on a blade for over a century....

[Mark]

Originally Posted by chevalier

in keeping with the subtopic


is the "spear of longinus' one and the same as the "antioch arrow/lance" the crusaders found during the seige of antioch???

Apparently not. Again, Wikipedia to the rescue (search "longinus spear"). According to that august authority, there are no less than three spears (in four different places): the "Vatican" spear (the tip of which is in Paris), the "Echmiadzin" spear (the one from Antioch, now in Armenia), and the "Vienna" spear (the one in this thread). The Vienna spear has been dated to no earlier than the 7th C, so it seems that it is the least likely of the three to be genuine.