106 results for "Saunière"
Abbé Jean-Marie Alfred Saunière (1855-1905) Brother and close friend of Abbé Bérenger Saunière. His role in the play is unclear. He became a vicar in the village of Alzonne on July 1st 1878 to join the Jesuits a year later. Being a Jesuit he ...
Antoine Captier (1833-1903) Captier was the gardener of Saunière and the carrilloneur (bell ringer) of the church in Rennes-le-Château. It was him who found a small glass tube in the wooden support pillar of the pulpit. It contained a small piec...
Elie Bot (1861-1947) Elie Bot was a local limonadier (soda-maker), mason and builder, from Luc-sur-Aude where he was also the mayor. He knew Saunière very well. It was Bot who did all the major building work for the priest including the renovati...
According to Gérard de Sède in his book the Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Château, Saunière defaced the tombstones of the Marchioness de Blanchefort's grave after he had decoded them to erase any evidence of a treasure. What great fortune the...
Uomo Universalis France mourned when Jean Cocteau died on 11 October 1963. In one blow, the country lost a great and internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, dramatist, designer and film maker. His fame began in his twenties and lasted until toda...
Marie Dénarnaud (1868-1953) Saunière's housekeeper, secretary and confidant for 21 years. It is whispered that La Madonne, (as the villagers called her) was a lot more than just his housekeeper. Eye witnesses describe her parading around the dus...
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...
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 Stations of the Cross in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Rennes-le-Château were installed in 1897. They were ordered from Giscard in Toulouse, apparently straight out of the catalogue. Read about the Giscard catalogue in this article. The...
For the first time, this book is available to the English language audience. Marcus Williamson presents you The True Celtic Language and the Stone Circle of Rennes-les-Bains. In 1880, Abbé Henri Boudet of Rennes-les-Bains published a strange book...
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) After Sauniere's death, a certain Angelo Roncalli was placed in charge of a dossier that involved Rennes-le-Château and the enigmatic Abbé by the Vatican. All this long before the story attai...
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...
During the last General Assembly of the Terre de Rhedae Association, chairman Antoine Captier presented an unknown photograph of 4, perhaps 5 key players in the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château. The photo was taken between 1895 and 1897 and was found...
One of the many Banks that Saunière corresponded with was the Bank Fritz Dörge, 4 Kossuth Lajos Utca in Budapest. It has led to much speculation about his dealings with the Habsburgs, that had there base in Hungary. It is claimed by some that Sa...
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 ...
Dalle de Coumesourde (stone of Coumesourde) The Dalle de Coumesourde, or simply Coumesourde Stone, is a strange beast. It is a stone with an inscription that a certain Ernest Cros found in 1928 near the hill that gave the stone its name. Mr Cros, ...
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...
Jesus in the Tomb with his eyes opened, Eglise St. Michel. Espéraza After Abbé Jean Rivière took the final confession of Bérenger Saunière, he is said never to have smiled again. This story seems exaggerated. Fact is that Rivière made a rema...
Abbé Jean Rivière (1867-1929) Jean Rivière was the curé of Espéraza, a neighboring village of Rennes-le-Château at the time of Saunière's death. It was Rivière who was called to the village by Marie Dénarnaud to hear her master's last con...
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 ...