Pre-sales have started for the Rise. This long awaited book by writers collective Isaac Ben Jacob and Sarah Fishberg will throw a completely new light on the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château.

Within medieval Europe, a new power was rising. Within the heart of the Catholic Church, a heresy had infiltrated its hierarchy almost to the very top, and began a centuries’ long campaign of altering its original teachings, to make it conform with their own.

Today, best known as “penitent movements”, the somewhat bizarre public spectacles they continue to display on the streets of Europe were originally but smokescreens as to the movement’s true doctrine, which was based on a Babylonian cult of the dead.

Isaac ben Jacob & Sarah Fishberg are the figureheads of a team of researchers that has identified and tracked this movement from the Middle East to Italy, Germany and France. Eventually, they realised that the mystery of Rennes-le-Château, linked with the extra-ordinary fortune of one Béranger Saunière – at the basis of numerous bestsellers, including The Da Vinci Code – was but another episode in the long and intriguing tale of this heretical movement.

The Rise unveils a battle between factions that has been waged in front of our eyes for centuries – and which is now wonderfully explained, in all its gory detail.

The cover was designed by Corjan de Raaf, creator of RLC Research.com

You can order the book by clicking this link

Anyone who has visited Rennes-le-Château over the last couple of years will have noticed that the Saunière estate is in a bad state. If nothing is done soon, two of the major landmarks in the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, the Villa Bethania and the Tour Magdala will have to be closed for the public or worse.

Click on one of the photos to see the current state of the Villa Bethania and Tour Magdala

Alex Painco, the new Major, is calling to the rescue. Since Rennes-le-Château is a tiny village, in spite of what you would expect from the visitor numbers, it has very few resources at its disposal. To be able to restore the Villa Bethania and the Tour Magdala to its original splendour, the Community Council is asking everyone that carries the village and the mystery in his/her heart to make a donation. Every donor will be added to the official community list, maintained to keep track of all restoration work to the domain. It’s an elegant way for every enthusiast to become associated with the Saunière estate for eternity.

Any amount can be sent to:

la Mairie de Rennes le Château,
à l’ordre du Trésor Public,
Mairie,
11190 Rennes le Château
France

Inhabitants of France can transfer the money by national bank transfer:
Mairie de Rennes le Château
Banque de France
CODE BANQUE : 30001
CODE GUICHET 00257
N,° Compte 0000S050043
CLE RIB 17

Anyone who wants to donate from abroad, please transfer the money using the International Bank Account Number (IBAN):
Rennes le Château – ( Banque de France)
IBAN : FR35 3000 1002 5700 00S0 5004 317
BDF BIC (Swift) : BDFEFRPPCCT

More photos can be seen on the village’s official website.

Photos copyright Jean-Patrick Pourtal (thanks Jean-Patrick)

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

,©2007-2009 rlcresearch.com, all rights reserved

Did some major updating on the photos page.

- Added photos to the Rennes-le-Château section
- Added photos to the Rennes-les-Bains sections
- Added a dedicated section to old postcards from Rennes-les-Bains, most I got from Marcus Williamson, who is an expert on the region’s history and, runs an art gallery in the village. Thanks Marcus!
- Added an Alet-les-Bains section
- Added a Montazels section
- Added a Notre Dame-de-Marceille section
- Added a Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet section
- Added a Niort-de-Sault section

This News Service is brought to you by RLC Research and Radio Rennessence. Subscribe to this News Feed | View the News Archive (slow) | View the French News Service _______________________________________________________________________
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 37748736 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 291425 bytes) in /var/www/g27895/rlcresearch.com/HTML/wp-content/plugins/simplepie-plugin-for-wordpress/simplepie_wordpress_2.php on line 2185