Water from the grail healed Indy’s father’s injuries but did not make him immortal. Indy drank from the grail, but he too lost his immortality once he left the grail site. The film’s official novelisation offers the following info about his death. He crossed to one of the bookshelves and pulled down a thick book.

Set in 1938, Last Crusade follows Indy as he sets off to find his missing father (Sean Connery) and recover the legendary Holy Grail before the Nazis can get their hands on it.

In order to remain immortal and never age, you have to drink from the Grail every single day (like the Grail Knight). Since the Grail cannot pass the seal, that means you are also stuck in the Temple for your immortality. The Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novelization by Rob MacGregor makes this clear.

Indiana Jones, however, found the most modest of the chalices and recognized the true Grail as the cup of a carpenter. The Holy Grail just out of Schneider’s reach.

Basilica of San Isidoro

The Grail was said to be the cup of the Last Supper and at the Crucifixion to have received blood flowing from Christ’s side. It was brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea, where it lay hidden for centuries. The search for the vessel became the principal quest of the knights of King Arthur.

English Language Learners Definition of Holy Grail : something that you want very much but that is very hard to get or achieve. : the cup that is said to have been used by Jesus Christ and that was sought by knights during the Middle Ages.

The meaning behind the Holy Grail is largely feminine and shaped in a V-shape or a chalice. The legend is further expanded with the belief that Mary Magdalene was associated with the Knights Templar.

Some wish the ceremony that celebrated the beginning of the alleged marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to be viewed as a “holy wedding”; and Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and their alleged daughter, Sarah, to be viewed as a “holy family”, in order to question traditional gender roles and family values.