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Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florence, showing the lance piercing the side of Jesus on the cross (c. 1440). The Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is alleged to be the lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.
The spear used is known as the Holy Lance, and more recently, especially in occult circles, as the "Spear of Destiny", which was revered at Jerusalem by the sixth century, although neither the centurion nor the name "Longinus" were invoked in any surviving report. As the "Lance of Longinus", the spear figures in the legends of the Holy Grail.
[citation needed] A weapon named the Spear of Longinus is also named. The academic Fabio Bartoli said Longinus' spear is closely related to concepts of desire and dominance in the series; the scientists in Antarctica stick the spear into Adam in the same scene, and in later episodes, Gendo describes it as an obstacle to his desires. [118]
The liturgical spear, on the Table of Oblation.. The Spear (Greek: λόγχη, romanized: lónchē; Church Slavonic: Копіе́, romanized: Kopìé) or Lance is a liturgical implement used during the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches.
Gendo Ikari, supreme commander of Nerv, orders the use of a weapon called the Spear of Longinus. Misato and Nerv's deputy commander Kozo Fuyutsuki try to talk Gendo out of it, but the commander refuses to stop. The Eva-00 extracts the spear from a white giant held in the deepest level of Nerv headquarters, launches the Spear into orbit, and ...
The Holy Lance with which a Roman soldier inflicted the final of the Five Wounds in his side; The Nails, inflicting four wounds on the hands and feet; The Veil of Veronica; Other common ones are: The reed which was placed in Jesus' hand as a sceptre in mockery; The purple robe of mockery; The Titulus Crucis, attached to the Cross.
"Weaving a Story" [a] is the fourteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. The episode, written by Hideaki Anno, and directed by Masahiko Otsuka and Ken Ando, was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on January 3, 1996.
In Neon Genesis Evangelion it is revealed that the Spear of Longinus is actually discovered in the Red Sea region before its transportation to Antarctica. [85] In the same scene, Gendo says that science is the strength of mankind, [86] another theme of the series. [87]