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Les Roches Tremblantes (Trembling Rocks), sometimes called Dancing Rocks are a prominent landmark around Rennes-les-Bains. Actually, they were until two of them were destroyed by a lunatic vandal. For centuries these stones stood swinging in the w...
[caption id="attachment_4776" align="alignleft" width="2048"] Correspondence about the Tour Magdala between Saunière and his architect Tiburce Caminade of Limoux[/caption] In 1906, Saunière started construction of the Tour Magdala. T...
The Grail. Between 1190 and 1240 it formed the central theme of a series of literary works that spoke of and appealed to a new social class that of the knights and warriors and the adventures they encountered on their travels. In recent decades it...
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Abbé Antoine Gélis (1827-1897) Curé of Coustaussa, neighboring village of Rennes-le-Château. He was a secretive man that had large sums of money at his disposal. Gélis was viciously murdered in 1897. No valuables or money had been removed fro...
On 20th November 1896, Abbé Saunière signed a contract with Giscard, manufacturer of religious statues and plasterwork in Toulouse. As part of this contract the priest ordered the big Bas Relief that you can still see today over the confessional...
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...
Shrowded in mystery, myth and legend, the peak of Mount Bugarach majestically dominates the wider area around Rennes-le-Château. Calmly looking upwards to the sky, the face of this dormant volcano was once believed to have been given the facial f...
Allegory of the Coronation of Celestine V / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France The painter is unknown but is has been dated 16th century. It is thought this is the painting of Celestine V that is referred to in Les Dossiers Secrets and in Gérard de ...
The story of Daniel Bettex is, interwoven with the mountain of Bugarach. Bettex, was a Swiss security officer at Geneva airport during his professional life. In his free time he researched the Medieval Cathar tragedy. Bettex was in close contact...
Emma Calvé (Rosa-Emma Calvet) 1858-1942 was one of the most famous opera singers of her day. She was deeply attracted to, and a leading participant in, the thriving esoteric scene in Paris, taking as a lover one of the most renowned occultists of...
George Anson 1st Baron Anson (1697-1762) British Admiral and wealthy aristocrat from an influential masonic family. He made his fortune capturing Spanish galleons between 1740 and 1748 in the war of the Austrian succession, the most famous one bei...
Abbé Jean Jacques Henri Boudet (1837-1915) Curé of Rennes-les-Bains during Saunière's priesthood in Rennes-le-Château. They certainly knew eachother but the exact nature of their relation is unknown. Boudet is often regarded as the supreme mac...
Around 1965 Henry Buthion (who had just bought the Villa Bethania from Noel Corbu) and his friend Jean Pellet found a piece of paper with some scribblings in Abbé's Saunière's, handwriting inside his personal altar in the housechapel. It was hi...
The Chapelle St. Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer was the first in a row of Chapels and Churches Jean Cocteau adorned with his characteristical man size murals. He created stained glas windows for the Church of St. Maximin in Metz, murals for the ch...
Welcome to Rennes-le-Château Research and Resource. This website is dedicated to giving all the available sources and insights to everyone with an interest in the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château has been an inexha...
Black rock outcropping along the road to Rennes-les-Bains coming from Coustaussa. The ancient silver and copper mines in this mountain top, opposite Blanchefort is dubbed 'le Roc Noir' (Black Rock). The location allegedly held the treasure chamber...
It was Henry Lincoln, co-author of bestseller the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail who noticed that many of the sites that figure in the mystery of Rennes-le-Château have very precise geometric relations with eachother. Frustrated by the fact that t...
In the back of the church, behind the statue of St. Antoine de Padoue there is a door leading to the Sacristie of the Eglise Marie-Madeleine. Inside the small room is large wood paneled wardrobe where Abbé Saunière kept his chasubles for the mas...
In 1900, the municipal council of, Rennes-le-Château's approved Abbé Saunière's request to dig a caveau in the cemetery, to serve as the last resting place for him and all future village priests. Construction was started in 1901. The caveau c...