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Mysterious Coded Documents, Buried Treasure, Abbé Saunier,
Curé of Rennes, and the mysterious deaths of priests in the
Aude.
Rennes-le-Château is a small village perched on a hilltop
near Couiza in the Aude departement of the Languedoc-Roussillon. It
has become world famous in the last few years following the publication
of a series of books dealing with a mystery concerning a nineteenth
century priest who lived in the village.
At the heart of the mystery is the fact that the priest (Abbé Bérenger Saunière) suddenly become immensely rich
during the 1880s. There are a few interesting aspects
of the mystery, such as where his money came from, but improbable
theories have been built on a few known facts and shorn up by mass
of demonstrable falsehoods. Over the last twenty years
a series of best-selling books have been published, each proposing
a more fantastic theory than its predecessors.
Saunier probably made his money by robbing ancient graves. (One
of the few reliable facts about Rennes-le-Château is that
it was once a large Visigothic city with a population of 20,000
or even 30,000, so it is is not impossible that he found a trove
of treasure, perhaps while restoring his Church). Although Saunier
probably made his money by robbing graves or selling masses, much
more popular theories are that he:
- discovered a cache of treasure from Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, perhaps including the Ark of the Covenant, brought to Carcassonne by the visigoths and later hidden at RLC.
- discovered a cache of treasure hidden by the Cathars who escaped
from Montsegùr in 1244.
- discovered a cache treasure buried by the Knights Templars.
- discovered a cache of treasure of the Lords of Rennes.
- Discovered a cache of treasure from the Kingdom of Majorca.
- Discovered some hidden item of great value (such as the Holy Grail or Charlemagne's sword).
- discovered Gnostic Gospels documents relating to the Early Christian Church so damaging to the Roman Catholic Churc that the
Vatican paid a fortune to suppress them.
Many of the theories revolve around a theory that the artist Nicholas
Poussin was party to some great secret, and that he encoded information
about it in his paintings - notably the painting known as the Shepherds
in Arcadia. According to some the painting was done in the Languedoc,
with Rennes-le-Château in the background.
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