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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...
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[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 ...
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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...
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In 1991, Henry Lincoln published his book the Holy Place. Many years of deeper and deeper research had led him to believe that almost everyhting that was presented by anyone as evidence in the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, was either impossible t...
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French researcher Jacques Rivière, who unfortunately passed away in 2006, left us some of the most serious, books on the mystery of Rennes-le-Château as well as a, great many things to ponder. On of his most intriguing claims was, that, if th...
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The Paris church of Saint Sulpice has played a role in the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château ever since Gérard de Sède made mention of it in his book, l'Or de Rennes also called Le Trésor Maudit, in 1967. We now know he was prompted by Pi...
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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...
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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...
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Franck Daffos and Jean-Pierre Garcia of the French Rennes-le-Chateau site www.rennes-le-chateau-archive.com, recently made a remarkable discovery. The two paintings Crucifixion and Christ and the Hare, both by the enigmatic Abbé Henri Gasc of Not...
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In January of 1890, the Rennes-le-Château Municipal Council approved Abbé Saunière's request to refrubish the public square in front of the Church. After a year of gardening, the first bit was completed and officially opened by the placement of...
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Around 1420, a rich Belgian merchant by name of Joost Vijd commisioned an altar piece displaying the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. The order was given to Flemish master Hubert van Eyck. After his death in 1426, the painting was finished by his fam...
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Jean Brunelin represents 40 years of research into the mystery of Rennes-le-Château. Nicknamed 'the Admiral', he has been its court photographer for just as long. From the famous picture of Jean Cocteau on his death bed to the amazing miniatures ...
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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...
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Noel Corbu (1912-1968) Entrepeneur, Noel Corbu bought Saunière's property, from Marie Dénarnaud in 1945 after which she lived with the Corbu's for until her death in 1953. When Noel failed to find even a trace of treasure he transformed Villa ...
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In 1995, French researcher André Douzet discovered a topographical model of the Holy Places from the beginning of the 20th century. In an envelope, taped to the bottom of the model he found a number of letters and specifications, allegedly wri...
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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...
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In 1995, the association Terre de, Rhedae, had the Church in Rennes-le-Château surveyed by architect Michel Verrot. The text here is a small piece of the actual much more elaborate report. L'EGLISE SAINTE-MARIE-MADELEINE L'église Sainte-Mar...
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The first three videos are the original BBC Chronicle documentaries that introduced the Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau to a global audience. It eventually led to the publishing of the worldwide bestseller Holy Blood, Holy Grail. [fvplayer src="http:...
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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...
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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...