The Wandering Jew on This Day in History

This Day In History: French novelist Eugene Sue died on this day in 1857. Famous for writing the serialized "Mysteries of Paris" he also popularized the legend of "The Wandering Jew." The Wandering Jew is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 1200's. The original legend tells of a Jew who taunted Jesus before his death and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. According to some sources, the legend stems from Jesus' words given in Matthew 16:28: "Yes. I tell you that there are some people standing here who will not experience death until they see the Son Man coming in his kingdom." (Jewish New Testament)

In the 1988 film The Seventh Sign the Wandering Jew appears as Father Lucci, and in the third episode of the first season of The Librarians, the character Jenkins mentions the Wandering Jew as an "immortal creature that can be injured, but never killed". The Wandering Jew even made it into video games. Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned presents The Wandering Jew as a childhood friend and, later, disciple of Jesus, who drank drops of his blood during the crucifixion and was thus cursed with immortality. The video game series Assassin's Creed features a group of individuals known as Sages, who share a number of supernatural abilities. In the game Assassin's Creed Unity, one of the sages is named the Wanderer and is linked to the Wandering Jew, described as "a Jewish Sage born in Judea. He was believed to have encountered Jesus Christ on his way to Golgotha".

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