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Booklet Gralsblätter
This is the first edition of the Grail Movement ideologies. -
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Booklet Der Ruf and Gralsblätter
The first edition of the Grail Movement message was updated to the Booklet Der Ruf and Gralsblätter version. -
Grail Movement Followers
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt wrote "In the Light of Truth" - The Grail Message which was read by many people who decided to move to Vomperberg, Tyrol (Austria), to live the message. -
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Reverberations of the Grail Message
This an another update to the Grail Message that was prolonged with repercussions. -
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Revision of the Grail Message
This is the final authorized edition of the Grail Message. Many countries at this point are adopting and expanding the Grail Movement. Some countries include: Germany, Austria, United States, Britain, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Netherlands, and Switzerland. -
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World War II - Nazi Adoption
The Nazi regime took part of Austria and expropriated the Grail Settlement. Oskar Ernst Bernhardt was arrested the first day the Nazi's annexed Austria and the settlement was used as a Nazi Training Camp. Bernhardt was kept under house arrest until he died in 1941. -
Allies Return Grail Settlement
The Allies later returned the Grail Settlement the Nazi's occupied to Bernhardt's widow, Maria Bernhardt, who began a new development for the Grail Movement. -
Expansion (Canada and Nigeria)
The Grail Movement also had successful missions
in Canada and Nigeria. In Nigeria, the number of Cross-bearers grew rapidly making Nigeria have more members in their country than all of Europe. -
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Schism
Oskar's daughter, created a will that left the rights to the Grail writings to the International Grail Foundation. Members of the Bernhardt family weren't happy with that decision, and they took the religion in an entirely different direction in 1999, after years of internal disputes. This splintering left the religion with the many independent sects (and diverse sets of worship practices) that it has today. -
Translations and Missionary Activity
In the late 1990s, "In the Light of Truth" Grail Movement was translated into other languages such as Chinese. The Missionary Activity was not successful anywhere. -
Women Slaves
Jirí Adam is the section leader for the Grail Movement in Brno, Czechia. He faced up to 12 years in prison for using female pensioners as slave laborers for nearly 20 years. -
Cannibalism
In Brno, Czech Republic, members were arrested for torturing and eating the son of cult member Karla Mauerova. The seven year-old son, Ondrej, had been partially skinned and Karla kept him in a cage to allow family and others to eat his flesh. Jakub, Ondrej's brother, was kept in cage and handcuffed to tables as they were both ritually tortured, burned, and whipped with belts.