Here are the most common abstracts of the secret of Rennes-le-Chateau. It was clear that Berenger Sauniere, the parish priest of the little small town during the late 19th and early 20th century, had been obtaining vast sums of Income to refurbish the local church and as well to build a few constructions in the area, such as his Tower of the Magdalene (Tour Magdala). Sauniere passed away in 1917, leaving the mystery of where he got his incredible wealth to his housekeeper, Marie Dernaud, who assured to expose it on her deathbed - but sadly she had a stroke which left her paralysed and not able to talk before her death in 1953. Speculation was rife on the source of the parish priest’s money. Was it the forgotten treasure of the Templars or the Cathars in the region? Might it have been buried Visigothic gold? Or was he pressuring the Church with some awful secret? The evidence that Guides to the last hypothesis is that Sauniere’s confession before his death was so outraging that the priest who heard it denied him absolution and last rites.
The mystery story is rendered greater by a series of parchments discovered by the cleric in 1891, which contained an easily exposed (but extraordinarily difficult to interpret) code. They were obviously published by his predecessor, Abbe Antoine Bigou, confessor to Marie d’Hautpoul, in 1781. (The same cipher appears on her Gravestone.) The parchments were, on the front of it, Latin transcriptions of passages from the Gospels; but they contained more cryptical secrets. Sauniere also appears to have left certain other “clues” in the highly Strange redesign of his church building and of the other structures in the region. Hidden within those Latin parchments was a content in French:
“THIS TREASURE BELONGS TO DAGOBERT II KING AND TO SION AND HE IS THERE DEAD.“
Within the 2nd parchment was an even more fantastic message:
“SHEPHERDESS NO TEMPTATION THAT POUSSIN TENIERS HOLD THE KEY PEACE 681 BY THE CROSS AND THIS HORSE OF GOD I COMPLETE (could also trans. as DESTROY) THIS DAEMON GUARDIAN AT MIDDAY BLUE APPLES.”
A third code that appears, not in the documents, but at Shugborough Hall’s Shepherd memorial, is the curious “D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M” which has never been interpreted.
There is a famous painting by Poussin titled Les Bergers D’Arcadie (the Arcadian shepherds) which displays them around a grave containing the mystifying inscription “Et in Arcadia Ego…” This grave comes out to represent a virtual replication of one not too different to it right outside of Rennes-le-Chateau. Three intrepid historians explored far and away for others to assist decode the puzzle. Suffice to say, Lincoln, Baigent, and Leigh did a Masterly job of “unearthing” the Merovingian monarch Dagobert and bound together a lot of secrets of history with a phenomenal dissertation that can be stated as thus: Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, legitimate nobility from the Judaic Houses of Benjamin and David, got married and sired heirs. Jesus did not die on the cross but went either to England or India.
The Magdalene’s heirs got married into the Visigoth families of the time and gave birth to the hallowed Merovingian ruling family line. The Visigoths of the region might have themselves been descended from the House of Benjamin, which had flew to the Arcadia region of Greece, and thence north into France, 1000 years before. The Merovingians were not eliminated by the Carlovingian supplanters, and their ancestry exists in a few of the additional royalties of Europe; apparently the goal of the mystical society entitled the Prieure du Sion is a Merovingian restoration in France. Obviously. For nothing is as it appears with the Rennes mystery. But in the hands of Leigh, Lincoln, and Baigent, it seems to comprehend myriads of others - the dissolution of the Templars, the downfall of the Cathars, the eccentric Rosicrucian manifestoes, and other political intrigues of French history. For it seems that Sion has a grievance against the Church, who cheated the Merovingian dynasty and coronated its ruiners. If Sauniere was an agent of Sion, it could explain why he was refused absolution.
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