In the literature, the Grail first appears in the poem "Perceval ou li contes del Graal," a poem of the eleventh century troubadour, and Wolfram von Eschenbach 1210 to introduce the figure of the Grail Knights and Castle Parzifal Montsalvat in the poem, which inspire Wagner for his opera Parsifal.Pues well, following the story the second tradition, and building it was in Spain to prepare for the interview at Hendaye, the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer visited the monastery of Montserrat on 23 October 1940. The magazine "Sapiens" in its issue No. 3 of January 2003 published a report on the matter, written by Jordi Queralt Solé Finestres and with the advice the historian and monk of Montserrat, Father Hilary Raguer:
HIMMLER IN MONTSERRAT
"The abbot of the monastery of Montserrat Antoni M. Marcel and his coadjutor, M. Aureli Escarré had to accept the visit of Heinrich Himmler. They had no choice: for 18 months since the Franco dictatorship was imposed in September 1939 had broken the Second World War and, before long, the German army had managed to get under his rule half of Europe. In addition, for 8 days the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Lluís Companys, was shot in the Castle of Montjuïc (Barcelona). One of the characters who had organized the arrest in France was the Earl of Mayalde, Jose Escriva de Romani Finat and then the English Director General of Security. It was he who organized the visit of Heinrich Himmler to Spain to close some issues, including the meeting to be held on October 23 between Hitler and Franco at Hendaye, the mutual cooperation in the extradition of certain characters in conflict for both governments and solution for the large number of English Republicans who were in concentration camps franceses.Aquel October 23, the Benedictine community to receive Himmler, certainly, but not its most important representatives. They were unwilling to shake hands with the man most representative of the persecution they suffered at that time the Catholic Church in Alemania.Heinrich Himmler, Reich Fuehrer SS, with all his company up the road that wraps around the unique mountain and leads to the square to the arches that give the entrance to the monastery. The group, formed by several cars, came from Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he had arrived that morning the supreme chief of police of the Third Reich from Madrid, ready to satisfy the curious interest that this was the mountain of Montserrat. He was accompanied, among others English and German authorities, General Wolf, chief of staff, Colonel Gebbardt, head of Health of SS Lt. Col. Hartmann and then captain general of Catalonia, Luis Orgaz.Mientras, Father Andreu Ripoll, appointed by order from the abbot to Cicero to visitors waited patiently. His mastery of the German language made him the ideal person to guide Himmler on behalf of the Benedictine monastery, a visit that even today, 94 years old, recalls: "At least 70 people were. Occupied the whole square! ". The first thing said Father Ripoll was the great German companions bias: all of them in uniform, the same height and look impenetrable, marking time and always greeting with a dry heels. Also remember very clearly the general Wolf, accompanying the Reichsfürer, who abruptly asked if he spoke German. Once he had secured, the Benedictine allowed to approach and greet Himmler shaking hands, not raising his arm, then start visiting the basilica, the library, museum and finally climb to the top of the mountain Cable Car in San Jerónimo.El father Gregori Estrada also attended the meeting. Because he spoke German during the Civil War had taken refuge with other monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach. Musicologist, composer and for many years director of the choir explains that he was commissioned to accompany a military entourage to see the basilica, but this, exhaustive, replied: "That the minister is not interested!. What he wants to see is the outside! ". That's what the father had reported Ripoll: Himmler what interested him was the mountain, not the monastery, and precisely for that reason the one who did Cicero ferried visitors from all rooms and corners of the building. Ripoll's father still can not understand how they got those visitors with those requirements, and understood even less when, in the library, Himmler asked him for documentation, as the Nazi leader, must inevitably Montserrat have regarding Parsifal and the Holy Grail. Ripoll's father replied that they had no documentation. "What do you mean? You must have necessarily documentation; in Germany everyone knows that the Holy Grail is in Montserrat "As much as the father explained that all file documentation had been burned during the destruction of the monastery in the French War (1808-1814) and, moreover, had never been documented evidence that the Holy Grail was hidden in Montserrat, Himmler not be persuaded. Encabezonado was the idea that Montserrat was the sacred mountain of Montsalvat referred to the legend of Parsifal. And thus, monks should know something about the Holy Grial.No was the only tense episode of the day. After the library, the route followed by the visit to the museum, where there is a shrine Iberian pre-Roman town was established in Catalonia today on 650 BC. The illustrious visitor looked at him and saw that the skeleton had some significant steps, verbalized their thoughts and said the body was of a duvet. Before correction Ripoll father, who stated that he was a Iberian, Himmler said, very sure of himself: "Yes, but they were descendants of the Norse, who fell to this land." Ripoll father, says he is angry at those words, and yet he felt more indignant when, being already in the Bible Museum, the SS Reichsfuehrer asked, eyes, attention to all present. He pointed his right index finger the model of the Temple of Jerusalem that is above and exclaimed: "Die erste Bank" ("First Bank"). Ripoll's father was surprised. It was certainly an attack against Jews, in consonance with the ideas that the Nazis had of it, yet turned into an attack on Jesus, who was also Jewish. Realizing, Himmler wanted point out that Christ was not Jewish, but the Aryan race, and that the Bible itself was evidence of this fact. "I decided to be silent, since such ignorance was unbelievable," he says today Ripoll.Pero in the air path is St. Jerome lived far more tense. Himmler was when he boasted loudly of being the great persecutor of the Catholic Church in Germany and viciously insulted Benedictine communities that were in his country. The head of the SS and the Catalan monk began a discussion on German companions frightened the English, who did not understand anything. Ripoll's father will contest each and every one of the arguments that the chief had used to Gestapo attacking the Church and the German Benedictines, "In the years I spent in Germany I never heard any criticism of the government nor the church is involved in political issues, and about what you say about the export of capital it and monasteries have been made, is false: the only money that can go is directed to foundations missionary in Africa, Japan and other countries, but that is not an export of capital. And on to what you mentioned about pedophilia and sodomy ... ausgeschlossen! (Quite impossible!). After that, Heinrich Himmler down the cable car. They were on top of Montserrat, and finally had reached where the German legend and speculated that the Nazis hid the Holy Grial.La visit lasted a little longer, until Himmler assumed that I could not get what he wanted in Montserrat. In the eyes of today, but the question is: How is it possible that one of the highest in the Nazi hierarchy, one of the key men of the German state, had spent a few hours of his short visit to Barcelona to visit a mountain in search of an object, as all serious research is part of the world of legends?
"The abbot of the monastery of Montserrat Antoni M. Marcel and his coadjutor, M. Aureli Escarré had to accept the visit of Heinrich Himmler. They had no choice: for 18 months since the Franco dictatorship was imposed in September 1939 had broken the Second World War and, before long, the German army had managed to get under his rule half of Europe. In addition, for 8 days the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Lluís Companys, was shot in the Castle of Montjuïc (Barcelona). One of the characters who had organized the arrest in France was the Earl of Mayalde, Jose Escriva de Romani Finat and then the English Director General of Security. It was he who organized the visit of Heinrich Himmler to Spain to close some issues, including the meeting to be held on October 23 between Hitler and Franco at Hendaye, the mutual cooperation in the extradition of certain characters in conflict for both governments and solution for the large number of English Republicans who were in concentration camps franceses.Aquel October 23, the Benedictine community to receive Himmler, certainly, but not its most important representatives. They were unwilling to shake hands with the man most representative of the persecution they suffered at that time the Catholic Church in Alemania.Heinrich Himmler, Reich Fuehrer SS, with all his company up the road that wraps around the unique mountain and leads to the square to the arches that give the entrance to the monastery. The group, formed by several cars, came from Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he had arrived that morning the supreme chief of police of the Third Reich from Madrid, ready to satisfy the curious interest that this was the mountain of Montserrat. He was accompanied, among others English and German authorities, General Wolf, chief of staff, Colonel Gebbardt, head of Health of SS Lt. Col. Hartmann and then captain general of Catalonia, Luis Orgaz.Mientras, Father Andreu Ripoll, appointed by order from the abbot to Cicero to visitors waited patiently. His mastery of the German language made him the ideal person to guide Himmler on behalf of the Benedictine monastery, a visit that even today, 94 years old, recalls: "At least 70 people were. Occupied the whole square! ". The first thing said Father Ripoll was the great German companions bias: all of them in uniform, the same height and look impenetrable, marking time and always greeting with a dry heels. Also remember very clearly the general Wolf, accompanying the Reichsfürer, who abruptly asked if he spoke German. Once he had secured, the Benedictine allowed to approach and greet Himmler shaking hands, not raising his arm, then start visiting the basilica, the library, museum and finally climb to the top of the mountain Cable Car in San Jerónimo.El father Gregori Estrada also attended the meeting. Because he spoke German during the Civil War had taken refuge with other monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach. Musicologist, composer and for many years director of the choir explains that he was commissioned to accompany a military entourage to see the basilica, but this, exhaustive, replied: "That the minister is not interested!. What he wants to see is the outside! ". That's what the father had reported Ripoll: Himmler what interested him was the mountain, not the monastery, and precisely for that reason the one who did Cicero ferried visitors from all rooms and corners of the building. Ripoll's father still can not understand how they got those visitors with those requirements, and understood even less when, in the library, Himmler asked him for documentation, as the Nazi leader, must inevitably Montserrat have regarding Parsifal and the Holy Grail. Ripoll's father replied that they had no documentation. "What do you mean? You must have necessarily documentation; in Germany everyone knows that the Holy Grail is in Montserrat "As much as the father explained that all file documentation had been burned during the destruction of the monastery in the French War (1808-1814) and, moreover, had never been documented evidence that the Holy Grail was hidden in Montserrat, Himmler not be persuaded. Encabezonado was the idea that Montserrat was the sacred mountain of Montsalvat referred to the legend of Parsifal. And thus, monks should know something about the Holy Grial.No was the only tense episode of the day. After the library, the route followed by the visit to the museum, where there is a shrine Iberian pre-Roman town was established in Catalonia today on 650 BC. The illustrious visitor looked at him and saw that the skeleton had some significant steps, verbalized their thoughts and said the body was of a duvet. Before correction Ripoll father, who stated that he was a Iberian, Himmler said, very sure of himself: "Yes, but they were descendants of the Norse, who fell to this land." Ripoll father, says he is angry at those words, and yet he felt more indignant when, being already in the Bible Museum, the SS Reichsfuehrer asked, eyes, attention to all present. He pointed his right index finger the model of the Temple of Jerusalem that is above and exclaimed: "Die erste Bank" ("First Bank"). Ripoll's father was surprised. It was certainly an attack against Jews, in consonance with the ideas that the Nazis had of it, yet turned into an attack on Jesus, who was also Jewish. Realizing, Himmler wanted point out that Christ was not Jewish, but the Aryan race, and that the Bible itself was evidence of this fact. "I decided to be silent, since such ignorance was unbelievable," he says today Ripoll.Pero in the air path is St. Jerome lived far more tense. Himmler was when he boasted loudly of being the great persecutor of the Catholic Church in Germany and viciously insulted Benedictine communities that were in his country. The head of the SS and the Catalan monk began a discussion on German companions frightened the English, who did not understand anything. Ripoll's father will contest each and every one of the arguments that the chief had used to Gestapo attacking the Church and the German Benedictines, "In the years I spent in Germany I never heard any criticism of the government nor the church is involved in political issues, and about what you say about the export of capital it and monasteries have been made, is false: the only money that can go is directed to foundations missionary in Africa, Japan and other countries, but that is not an export of capital. And on to what you mentioned about pedophilia and sodomy ... ausgeschlossen! (Quite impossible!). After that, Heinrich Himmler down the cable car. They were on top of Montserrat, and finally had reached where the German legend and speculated that the Nazis hid the Holy Grial.La visit lasted a little longer, until Himmler assumed that I could not get what he wanted in Montserrat. In the eyes of today, but the question is: How is it possible that one of the highest in the Nazi hierarchy, one of the key men of the German state, had spent a few hours of his short visit to Barcelona to visit a mountain in search of an object, as all serious research is part of the world of legends?
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