Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the name given to the unknown Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. The lance is called in Catholic Christianity the "Holy Lance" (lancea) and the…
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Longinus topic overview
The analysis highlights Present-day veneration, Origins and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Longinus.
Related topics
59
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
63
Extracted relationships
80
Related term clusters
32
Bridge connections
63
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Overview · 20 topics
Present-day veneration · 18 topics
Origins · 17 topics
Gallery · 4 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Attributes
Military attire, lance
Born
1st century Sandiale or Sandrales of Cappadocia
Died
1st century Mantua, Italy, Roman Empire
Feast
March 15: Roman Catholic Church (pre-1969) · 16 October: Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches · 22 October: Armenian Apostolic Church · 14 November: Coptic Orthodox Church
Major shrine
Inside St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Patronage
military personnel, the blind
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6Apocryphal · Gospel of Nicodemus · Christian tradition
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Advanced semantic analysis
How Longinus connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Longinus shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Longinus → Acts, Apocryphal Gospel, Cassia, Christian, Crucifixion, Destiny, Florence, Germanus, Gospel, Gospels, Greek, Greeks, Herod, Holy Grail, Holy Lance, Jerusalem, Jesus, John, Lance, Later Another extracted example is Longinus → Basilica, Bom Jesus, Bruges, Chios, Cross, Evangelist, First Class Bone Relic, GreeceChrist, Groeningmuseum, Jan Provoost, John, LonginusLonginus, Marys, Monte, Nea Moni Church, PortugalFresco, Prague, Saint LonginusSaint Longinus, St, St Paul. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Longinus → Basilica, Bom Jesus, Bruges, Chios, Cross, Evangelist, First Class Bone Relic, GreeceChrist, Groeningmuseum, Jan Provoost, John, LonginusLonginus, Marys, Monte, Nea Moni Church, PortugalFresco, Prague, Saint LonginusSaint Longinus, St, St Paul
related to Present-day veneration· 16
Longinus → Armenian Apostolic Church, At Jerusalem, Basilica, Eastern Orthodox Church, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Holy Lance, Lord, March, October, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Martyrology, Roman Rite, Saint Longinus, Saint Peter's Basilica, The Eastern Orthodox Church, Vatican City
Feast· 4
Longinus → 14 November: Coptic Orthodox Church, 16 October: Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches, 22 October: Armenian Apostolic Church, March 15: Roman Catholic Church (pre-1969)
Attributes· 1
Longinus → Military attire, lance
Born· 1
Longinus → 1st century Sandiale or Sandrales of Cappadocia
Died· 1
Longinus → 1st century Mantua, Italy, Roman Empire
Major shrine· 1
Longinus → Inside St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Patronage· 1
Longinus → military personnel, the blind
Venerated in· 1
Longinus → Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Catholic Church
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 80 structured relationships around Longinus. Examples in this analysis include Longinus → Attributes → Military attire, lance and Longinus → Born → 1st century Sandiale or Sandrales of Cappadocia. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Longinus
Attributes
Military attire, lance
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Born
1st century Sandiale or Sandrales of Cappadocia
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Died
1st century Mantua, Italy, Roman Empire
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Feast
March 15: Roman Catholic Church (pre-1969)
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Feast
16 October: Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Feast
22 October: Armenian Apostolic Church
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Feast
14 November: Coptic Orthodox Church
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Major shrine
Inside St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Patronage
military personnel, the blind
1.00
infobox
Longinus
Venerated in
Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Catholic Church
1.00
infobox
Longinus
related to Gallery
Nea Moni Church
0.60
section
Longinus
related to Gallery
Chios
0.60
section
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Related concept clusters Related term clusters
Related term clusters group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Longinus bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Saint, Roman and St. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Longinus
Saint
Roman
St
Lance
Holy
Christian
Jesus
Century
Name
Basilica
Catholic
Church
longinus
Saint
Roman
St
Lance
Holy
Christian
Jesus
Century
Name
Basilica
Catholic
Church
holy lance
Soldier
Holy
Lance
Name
Christianity
Side
Roman
Said
Feast
October
Gospel
Spear
gospel of john
Nicodemus
Soldier
Saint
Crucifixion
Name
Catholic
Lance
Story
Armenian
City
Vatican
Feast
roman catholic church
Eastern
Orthodox
Church
Venerated
Armenian
Catholic
October
Roman
Side
Crucifixion
Feast
Soldier
eastern orthodox church
Orthodox
Eastern
Venerated
Roman
Armenian
October
Peter's
Basilica
Feast
Saint
Also
City
armenian apostolic church
Eastern
Orthodox
Feast
October
Armenian
Church
Venerated
Roman
Basilica
Catholic
City
Nicodemus
roman martyrology
Venerated
Eastern
Orthodox
Catholic
Side
Church
Feast
Soldier
Crucifixion
Armenian
Centurion
October
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Longinus, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Longinus with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Longinus
Nodes64
Edges63
Triples80
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.03125
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Longinus to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Present-day veneration, Origins & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
