After this Titurel had spent years in warfare against the Saracens and in doing good to the poor, an angel announced to him that he had been chosen to guard the Holy Grail, which was about to descend once more to earth, and take up its abode on Montsalvatch.

This vision sufficed to send Titurel off on a quest for the Holy Mountain,--which some authorities identify with the place of the same name on the east coast of Spain,--whither he was safely led by a guiding cloud.
After ascending the steep mountain, Titurel was favored with a glimpse of the Holy Grail, and he and a number of knights--also brought thither by miraculous means--erected a marvellous temple, whose foundations were laid by the angels, who labored at the edifice while the volunteer builders were at rest.

In a marvellously short time a temple of transcendent beauty was thus finished, and, as soon as it was consecrated, the Holy Grail stole down from heaven on a beam of celestial light, to abide in its midst.

Titurel, king and guardian of the Holy Grail, always presided at the table around which his knights gathered, and where one and all were miraculously fed.

Besides, there appeared from time to time on the edge of the sacred vase, in letters of fire, instructions bidding a knight go out into the world to defend some innocent person or right some wrong.