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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...
In October 1904, Abbé Saunière sent a postcard to Marie Dénarnaud from the village of Arles-sur-Tech. This pilgrimage site, close to the spa town of Amélie-les-Bains at the foot of the Pyrenees, drew and still draws people from far away to wor...
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...
The domain of Abbé Saunière and in fact the whole Mystery of Rennes-le-Château counts a , number of inversions and doubles. Here's an attempt to sum them up in random order. I am open to suggestions. On the large Fresco on the west wall of...
Called 'Dalle des Chevaliers' in French, this engraved stone is said to have been the cover stone of the crypt beneath the church at Rennes-le-Château. According to the legend, Saunière found it lying upside down and had it lifted by Adrien Marr...
1 Church of St. Mary Magdalene 2 Sacristie 3 Calvaire 4 Grotto 5 Reposoir 6 Cemetry Gate 7 Ossarium 8, Original tombs of Bérenger Saunière and Marie Dénarnaud 9 Notre Dame de Lourdes, jardin de Vierge 10 Presbytery 11 Villa Bethania 12 Hou...
A surgeon ventured along the river Aude at the beginning of the 20th century, in order to make careful observations. Professor Philippe-Henri Lonet arrived from the Bordeaux region. He came because he devoted his leisure time to the photography of...
Nicolas Pavillon (1597-1677) It was during the reign of Pavillon as bishop of Alet-les-Bains that allegedly the Shepherd Paris fell into a hole while chasing a sheep and found gold. It is in this story that the mystery of Rennes-le-Château finds ...
In 1978, Henri Boudet's enigmatic (some say non-sensical) book The True Celtic Language and the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains was re-issued, including a preface by Pierre Plantard. Today Plantard's role in the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château is contr...
[caption id="attachment_3412" align="alignleft" width="300"] Knights Templar guarding the True Cross at the Siege of Ascalon[/caption] The Knights Templar have been linked to the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château from the very beginning. Largely beacu...
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...
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...
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...
Curé de Rennes-les-Bains and predecessor of Henri Boudet, as priest of Rennes-les-Bains. , According to Les Dossiers Secrets Jean Vié learned of Antoine Bigou's secret through Abbé François-Pierre Cauneille who had accompanied Bigou ...
Nicolas Poussin, (1594-1665) Allegedly, Poussin's motto was 'tenet confidentiam' or 'keeper of secrets'., What did Poussin know and did he leave any clues in his work? Young Nicolas Poussin ran away from home when he was eighteen to find refuge...
[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...
According to the resume Otto Rahn wrote for his SS entry dossier, he was born on 18 February 1904. Rahn's school history teacher Freiher von Gaul introduced him to the Grail romances and the stories of Parzival and Siegfried. He gained his Bachelo...
In the 1890s, in, the nondescript Village of Raynaude, Father Antoine Rousse faced a serious problem. In fact, for a Catholic priest, it was a matter of some urgency. His church and presbytery were in such a state of disrepair that he could not c...