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The number 22 appears to have a special significance in relation to Rennes-le-Château: - 22nd July is Mary Magdalene's Feast day - 22nd January 1917, Bérenger Saunière died - Tour Magdala and the garden are linked by 22 steps - Tour Magdala has...
Handwritten document, found in Nothern Spain in 2003. It probably originates from the early 1800s. It is compiled in Latin and divided into twenty-two quatrains, each one starting with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It mentions 'Rheda' (the old ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Ariduchesse Marie-Thérèse de Modène, Comtesse de Chambord (1817 - 1886) Member of the Habsburg family. Widow of Henry V d'Artois (1820-1883), last of the Bourbons and pretender to the throne of France. She donated 1.000 goldfrancs to Abbé Saun...
Horizontal Tombstone of Marie de Nègre d'Ables Also called the Arcadia stone. Transcription of the horizontal tombstone of Marie de Nègre d'Ables, Dame d'Hautpoul, Marquise de Blanchefort +17/01/1781. De engraving is believed to have been commis...
Between June 2007 and august 2009 your unworthy webmaster interviewed a number of well known American, English and French Rennes-le-Château related authors and researchers for Radio Rennessence. The interviews where conducted by the esoteric troj...
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...
Abbé Louis de Coma (1822-1911) [caption id="attachment_5319" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] BOOM...the destruction of Carol. the cloud of smoke still visible on the bottom photo[/caption] It took two enormous dynamite explosions to level the M...
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...
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...
Charles de la Cropte de Chanterac was the last Bishop of Alet-les-Bains. On 12th July 1790,, just after the French Revolution, the, French National Assembly signed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. This bill required all priests to s...
Old photos and post cards from the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château [ngg_images source="albums" container_ids="6,7" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_extended_album" gallery_display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails" galleries_per_page="...
Priests of Rennes-le-Château from 1724 to 1917 1724-1736 Abbé Bernard 1736-1774 Abbé Bigou (Jean) 1774-1791 Abbé Bigou (Antoine) 1791-1803 Abbé Camp (Curé de Alaigne) 1803-1805 Abbé Marsan 1805-1820 Abbé Rouger 1820-1823 Abbé Sabarther 18...
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...
In France, a Reposoir (Viewing Room), was a place where the dead were laid to rest before the burial. The villagers could then visit them to pay them their last respects together before they were trusted to their graves. In the case of Rennes-le-...
Salza is a tiny village, some 35 kilometres from Rennes-le-Château. It litterally lies at the end of a narrow mountain road. There are perhaps 10 houses and a small church. The interesting thing about the church is that it has an upside-down wood...
Recently, Laurent Buchholtzer, better known by his pseudonym of Octonovo published a list of known travels by Abbé Saunière. All these trips have been documented beyond any doubt in his own letters and account books. The list is not complete, as...
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...