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Holly Blood & Holly Grail
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL
PART ONE The Mystery 21 1 Village of Mystery 23 Rennes-leChateau and Berenger Sauniere 24 The Possible Treasures 32 The Intrigue 37 2 The Cathars and the Great Heresy 41 The Albigensian Crusade 42 The Siege of Montsegur 49 The Cathar Treasure 51 The Mystery of the Cathars 56 3 The Warrior Monks 59 Knights Templar The Orthodox Account 60 Knights Templar The Mysteries 75 Knights Templar- The Hidden Side 83 4 Secret Documents 94 PART TWO The Secret Society 109 The Order Behind the Scenes 111 The Mystery Surrounding the Foundation of the Knights Templar 116 Louis VII and the Prieure de Sion 119 The Cutting of the Elm’ at Gisors 120 5 Ormus 123 The Prieure at Orleans 126 The “Head’ of the Templars 128 The Grand Masters of the Templars 129 6 The Grand Masters and the Underground Stream 133 Rene d’Anjou 138 Rene and the Theme of Arcadia 140 The Rosicrucian Manifestos 144 The Stuart Dynasty 148 Charles Nodier and His Circle 154 Debussy and the Rose-Croix 158 Jean Cocteau 161 The Two John XXIIIs 164 7 Conspiracy through the Centuries 168 The Prieure de Sion in France 170 The Dukes of Guise and Lorraine 173 The Bid for the Throne of France 176 The Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement 178 -1-

Chateau Barberie 183 Nicolas Fouquet 185 Nicolas Poussin 187 Rosslyn Chapel and Shugborough Hall 190 The Pope’s Secret Letter 192 The Rock of Sion 192 The Catholic Modernist Movement 194 The Protocols of Sion 198 The Hieron du Val d’Or 203 8 The Secret Society Today 209 Alain Poher 212 The Lost King 213 Curious Pamphlets in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 216 The Catholic Traditionalists 219 The Convent of 1981 and Cocteau’s Statutes 223 M. Plantard de Saint-Clair 230 The Politics of the Prieure de Sion 237 9 The Long-haired Monarchs 245 Legend and the Merovingians 245 The Bear from Arcadia 249 The Sicambrians Enter Gaul 250 Merovee and His Descendants 251 Blood Royal 253 Clovis and His


References: - 14 - and as we first came to know of it.” Rennes-leChateau and Berenger Sauniere On June 1st, 1885 the tiny French village of Rennes-leChateau received a new parish priest
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