Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Welcome!

Welcome to our updated site.

Thanks to an overwhelming response to our film and this site from all of you this summer and fall, we have added a new trailer, updated our synopsis, and released some details about us.

We have also, as many of you requested, made available six short clips from the film.

But, above all, we wanted to announce the discovery of a small wooden chest near the village of Rennes-le-Chateau just a few weeks ago.

We think that this might be the most significant ‘find’ in the area yet made.

More details of exactly how it was found will be revealed in due course, but we can say that it followed the discovery of a cache of papers hidden near Rennes-le-Chateau. These papers contained a series of coded, written, clues about “an anointing jar” and the “parchments of Abbe Bigou”, hidden in a cave near the village.

The cave has become known as the cave of the Magdalene.

Within the chest is a small, 6 inch high, pottery jar, a glass vial containing a rolled parchment, a number of Roman coins and another item, the details of which we are holding back for now.

According to experts at the British Museum, who have analyzed the jar, it can be dated from between the beginning of the 1st century BC and the end of the 1st century AD and was used to store scented oils.

The coins date from early 1st century Judea through to 6th century Constantinople up to the eleventh century Crusades in the Holy Land.

We believe that this could be an important find. The positive dating to the time of Jesus and Mary is very interesting.

Whilst we don’t know if this was Mary Magdalene’s actual jar, it could well be an object that was venerated as such for centuries, maybe longer.

The rolled parchment within the vial is particularly interesting as it was said that the Abbe Bigou, the priest of Rennes-Le-Chateau did hide a small vial inside a wooden pillar in the church, which was then discovered by his successor, Abbe Berenger SauniƩre in 1891.

We think that this could be that vial, and that parchment.

We are not, at this stage, revealing what is on the parchment, but it does relate to what it says is the ‘truth of the Hautpoul family’.

As you know, there is a strong belief in South West France that Mary Magdalene, often portrayed with an anointing jar, came there after leaving Jerusalem, but although many churches have claimed to have her remains, none have ever been conclusively proved authentic.

For decades rumours have grown that she might have been secretly buried in an unmarked tomb in or near to the small village of Rennes-Le-Chateau by families descended from her Bloodline.

If Mary Magdalene’s body is buried there, it confirms what the man claiming to represent the Priory of Sion implied. He said that the Order does possess an irrefutable ‘body of evidence’. When we pushed him to say if that meant they had her remains, he refused to comment further.

It’s too early to say, but it’s possible that the ‘body of evidence’ could very well be an actual body. Perhaps the true remains of Mary Magdalene are buried nearby, and the small jar was taken from this burial before being hidden in the box.

We are editing this new material into our film, which will mean that it will not be released now until early in 2007. We will keep you fully updated with developments.