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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...
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Mary Magdalene, the Greatest Story Never Told guest article by Margaret Starbird In the wake of Dan Brown's record-breaking bestseller The Da Vinci Code, some insisted its plot was only fiction, while others were asking, 'What remains when the fic...
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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...
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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...
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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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Les Bergers d'Arcadie (Et in Arcadia Ego) / Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Painted by Nicolas Poussin between 1638 and 1640. Poussin is linked to the enigma of Rennes-le-Château like no other artist. According to Gérard de Sède in his book 'le...
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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...
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On the western wall of the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Saunière had an enormous fresco installed. It's colorfulness and richness adds much to the character of the church that has been described by many a researcher as gaudy or kitsch. The fre...
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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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During the research for his third BBC film on the subject of Rennes-le-Château, Henry Lincoln teamed up with Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent. Their combined efforts and insights led to the release of their bestseller Holy Blood and the Holy Gra...
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[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...
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[caption id="attachment_2510" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Saunière's Altar as it looked in the 1960s"][/caption] One of the first renovations Saunière undertook in his church was the replacement of the old altar. , This new alt...
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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...
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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 1897 Saunière finished the works on the church gardens. On the 6th of June the gardens were inaugurated by Monseigneur Billard, the Bishop of Carcasonne on a visit to Rennes-le-Château. The commemorative plaque can still be seen ...
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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...
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A Man's Best Friend In the mystery of Rennes-le-Château, an enormous amount of attention is reserved for a very small group of people. At the top of the list of course is the man who embodies the mystery like no-one else: Bérenger Saunière. Whe...