Priory of Sion and Bloodline families confirm items as genuine relics.

Representatives of the Priory of Sion and the Bloodline families have confirmed to us in a series of emails and telephone conversations that the items in the chest: the cup, the anointing jar and the vial are all genuine relics.

They said that the cup and the anointing jar were both used at the wedding of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene and have been passed down by families in the Bloodline for centuries as sacred relics celebrating that Royal union.

We have been promised further details and ‘incontrovertible proof’ of the items provenance.


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The Oxford Radio Carbon Laboratory, famous for its dating of the Turin Shroud, has just completed its analysis of the small rolled up parchment that we found in the glass vial.
According to their tests, carried out in January 2006, there is a 95.4% probability that the parchment dates from between 1430AD and 1520AD.
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We are also pleased to show the latest photographs, after cleaning, of the ancient coins that were found in the chest.

“ It looks like someone’s collection from parts Levantine, with Byzantine, East Roman provincial and even a crusader coin. The coins date from Jewish King Alexander Geneas of the Hasmonean dynasty 100BC through to the late Roman period, into the Byzantine Emperors of the 5th and 6th centuries up to the Crusades in the 12th Century.”
Richard Abdy, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum
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Bloodline is nearing completion at our edit studio in Los Angeles. We will begin screening a rough cut of the film over the next week for friends and family and to iron out any kinks.
After that we will be showing it to studios and distributors here in Hollywood and perhaps arrange for screenings at one or two Festivals around the world, to help spread the word.
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We remain thrilled that several best-selling authors, academics and theologians have come on board to support the film and its findings. Here are some of the latest…

"Let me be the first to congratulate you on the good vibe and pr you seem to be getting on your BLOODLINE production. Good title! Good luck !
Robert Eisenman, Director of the Institute for Judeo-Christian Origins at California State University Long Beach, Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College, Oxford and author of the newly released "New Testament Code."

"In thirty years years as a Rennes researcher, this could be the most important find ever made…if this IS the cup from the wedding and the anointing jar used by Mary Magdalene then this find is truly AWESOME…”
The Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, Anglican priest, author and journalist

"This vessel (the jar) is very clearly, beyond any doubt, Jerusalemite, from the 2nd Temple period. It is an unguentarium and usually contained oil based perfumes. Best of luck with your film !"
Dr. Gabi Barkay, Senior Lecturer of Bar Ilan University currently excavating the Temple Mount.

"If this cup and jar are connected to Jesus, Mary Magdalene and/or their descendants then this would corroborate what I have been saying for years, that they were married and that their Bloodline does exist."
Sir Laurence Gardner, author The Magdalene Legacy, The Bloodline of the Grail, The Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark and the forthcoming The Hidden Descent from Jesus

“I find sufficient evidence in the New Testament to convince me that Jesus was married. I hope he was. I would rejoice if that supposition could be proved…I wish you well with this film.”
The Right Reverend John Shelby Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey (retired), author and lecturer

“(the jar)…It is from the late Greek Period, Hellenistic, 1st century BC into the early 1st century AD. It’s an unguentum orca, an anointing jar, from the east Mediterranean which would have been used to carry an oil based perfume.”

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 Sauniére 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.