25 results for "parchment"
From Rags to Richess At the end of the 19th century, Bérenger Saunière, the poor parish priest of Rennes-le-Château, all of a sudden started spending a lot more money then he could ever have earned performing his normal duties....
In 1967, for the first and last time since Saunière's days, research was done under the floor of the church. Jacques Cholet, a railway engineer from Paris got approval from the Rennes-le-Château Municipal Council on May 31, 1959 for "...
Allegedly found by Bérenger Saunière while restoring his church in July 1887. It contains the story in which Jesus visits Lazarus in Bethania from the Gospel of John in Latin. In this parchment another coded message was discovered: BERGERE PAS D...
Allegedly found by Bérenger Saunière while restoring his church in July 1887. It contains Latin text fragments of Luke VI, 1-5 and Matthew XII, 1-8, Mark II, 23-28. On this parchment a coded message was found that is at the heart of the enigma: ...
During the research for his third BBC film on the subject of Rennes-le-Château, Henry Lincoln teamed up with Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent. Their combined efforts and insights led to the release of their bestseller Holy Blood and the Holy Gra...
Abbé Antoine Bigou (1719-1794) Saunière's predecessor as prête of Rennes-le-Château from 1776 to 1792. Bigou was the priest and confidant of the family Hautpoul de Blanchefort. On her deathbed, Marie de Blanchefort, allegedly confided her...
Vertical Tombstone of Marie de Nègre d'Ables, Dame d'Hautpoul, Marquise de Blanchefort +17/01/1781. the vertical headstone of Marie de Nègre d'Ables as recorded by M. Elie Tisseyre in 1905 (left) a reproduction from the Museum in Rennes-le-Chât...
[caption id="attachment_2510" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Saunière's Altar as it looked in the 1960s"][/caption] One of the first renovations Saunière undertook in his church was the replacement of the old altar. , This new alt...
Abbé François Bérenger Saunière (1852-1917) François Bérenger Saunière was born on 11th April 1852 in Montazels, a small village not far from Rennes-le-Château in the department of the Aude in...
Emile-Henri Hoffet (1873-1946) Renowned Occultist and Paleographist (someone who studies ancient manuscripts). Supposedly Hoffet was the expert that decoded the parchments Saunière brought to Paris and left there. According to Gérard de Sède, H...
Monseigneur Félix-Arsène Billard (1829-1901) 23 Oct 1829 Born in Saint-Valèry-en-Caux 17 Dec 1853 Ordained Priest of Rouen 17 Feb 1881 Appointed Bishop of Carcassonne 3 Dec 1901 Died Bishop of Carcassonne Bishop of Carcassonne and protector of ...
[caption id="attachment_2283" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Abbey of Orval, Belgium"][/caption] The Abbey of Orval, in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, is truly a place of mystery. The name "Orval" means "Valley of Gold". Nostradamus was said...
Docteur Paul Courrent (1861-1952) Courrent was Saunière's doctor and a good friend in his later years until the Abbé's death in 1917. Besides being a doctor, a winemaker and particularly wealthy, he was a fanatical archeologist, heraldist and hi...
In July 2011, a group of longtime French researchers fell out with eachother and in the slipstream published their research from recent years including what they thought was the location of the treasure of the Visigoths and the source of Saunière...
Every year, at midday on 17th January, a sunray creates, an effect on the wall of the Eglise Madeleine in Rennes-le-Château. This light effect is called 'Pommes Bleues'. This name refers to the second parchment that Saunière found where 'Pomme...
The pillar was on of two that supported the original altar in the church. The second pillar was long thought to have disappeared. It is known that it had no inscriptions (Jean-Luc Robin, Rennes-le-Château - Saunière's secret). Recently an almost...
Early 2000, Dutch bestselling author and researcher Klaas van Urk discovered a narrow shaft hidden high on Mount Cardou. He had been led to the location using, the Rennes-le-Château, parchments, the Coumesourde stone and the enigmatic text of L...
[fvplayer src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXB3mfHeFIM"] In 1996, an episode of the BBC show Timewatch was dedicated to Paul Schellenberger's and Richard Andrew's book the Tomb of God. In this controversial book, the authors claimed that they ...
[caption id="attachment_5334" align="alignleft" width="195"] Monsieur Bieil Directeur de Saint-Sulpice by Monsigneur LaCroix, bishop of Tarentaise[/caption] Abbé Jean-François-Victor Bieil. According to Gérard de Sède, Saunière travelled to P...
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