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 in the archives of the Saunière family who handed it to Antoine.

On the photo, 5 priests are positioned around a book on a table, possibly the Holy Bible. From left to right you can see Bérenger Saunière, Maurice Malot (the cousin of Antoine Gélis), Bérenger’s younger brother Alfred Saunière, an unknown priest and at the very right Antoine Gélis, who would be murdered not too long after this scene was recorded. There’s a distinct possibility that the unknown priest is in fact Henri Boudet, but since no confirmed photos of him exist it is impossible to check at this stage. It is not certain where the photo was taken or what the ocassion was. However, since the men clearly posed for the ocassion, all looking in different directions, there was probably a good cause for taking it.

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Garcia for sharing this and to Terre de Rhedae, with whose kind permission this photo is published.

It’s great to see these men together after all this time. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

Take care | Corjan de Raaf

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This week, Société Perillos finally published one of the letters that were found with the famous Saunière Model. This concludes 13 years of uncertainty about the authenticity of this model.

The letter contains general comments about the model and the implementation of certain requested details. Intriguingly at the very end of the letter, Saunière names an unknown priest in an unknown town who would be the receiver of the second model:

                          Rennes-le-Château le…..

Cher monsieur,

Je vous remercie de votre dernière lettre.
Voici les renseignements que je vous
donne en pièces séparées. Ce sont les
cartes et les vues conformes à mes
explications précédentes pour le moulage.
Vous voudrez bien me faire savoir si
ma commande est susceptible d’être
agrée puisque ces détails obligent à
modifier ce projet et son devis.
Je compte que vous veillerez à ce que
ceci améliore l’aspect et les
informations attendues sur le relief des
terrains, mesures et dimensions totales.
Je vous demande de faire
parvenir, comme convenu à la
commande, l’autre modèle à
mon confrère Monsieur l’abbé
….. curé doyen de……

The model is pivotal in the theory involving Saunière’s dealings in the ruined village of Perillos.

Read the full article about this on Société Perillos. 

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Extract of the Guide de l’Aude administratif, judiciaire et commercial, the 1897 Yellow Pages, published in Montpellier in 1897 by the Société des Guides Méridionaux. The page shows the record for Rennes-le-Château. We learn that the village had 246 inhabitants. Notice how mister E. Clamon tripled as teacher, secretary to the Major and photographer.

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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 the points of all the summits of the hills in the Aude are joined up, they reproduce the figure of Mary Magdalene as she appears on the bas-relief of Saunière’s altar, her head being the ramparts of Carcassonne.

Another leading Rennes researcher, Pierre Jarnac, has repeated this exercise and confirms that this does appear to work.

If this was indeed meant to be a map, then at the intersection of the cross on which the Magdalene’s gaze is fixed lies the village of Puichéric. That’s an amazing coinicidence, since in Puichéric, the church used to have a stained-glass window with exactly the same scene. Rivière believed that the secret is the locations of some very rich mines.

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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 name of Rennes-le-Château) and well known locations in the mystery like Bugarach and the name of Mary Magdalene. The Quatrains are believed to be related to Abbé Antoine Bigou or to have been written by him during his last years in Spain.

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