This relic myth is still believed today. A relic can be minute flakes of bone, a hair follicle, skin, as examples. In fact, there is one report of the foreskin removed at the circumcision of Jesus being a relic. The truth is that relics became a way to control the people and to have them worship these relics. In John 14:12, Jesus is quoted as saying, --the works I do, shall ye do also, and greater works shall ye do." In John 10:34, Jesus said in answer to the Jews who would stone him, "Is it not written in 'your law', I said, Ye are gods?" This is in reference to Psalms 82:6, "I 'said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High." Religions slide over these verses and focus on false beliefs that Jesus died for your sins. I think it is time to take him down from the cross.
Mary Magdalene was deemed to be an adulteress and a repentant prostitute by Pope Gregory the Great in a speech given in 591 A.D. For centuries, she has been portrayed as a symbol of repentance. It was not until 1969 that the Church allegedly admitted that her being a prostitute was not in the Bible. Myths have an insidious way of being believed as being true.
This great myth regarding Mary Magdalene as being a 'fallen woman' has no actual foundation. In A.D. 710, anyone could have placed a piece of an old parchment reading, "Here lies the body of Mary Magdalene." There is no doubt in my mind that Mary Magdalene was a great woman. Her presence in southern France and the Pyrenees is evident and her memory has been kept alive, and it is possible that it was the Knights Templar who realized her greatness and is responsible for the preservation of her memory.
With the revelation that Ben Hammott of the UK discovering a hidden tomb near Rennes-le-Chateau, France containing a mummified body of a female covered by a Knights Templar shroud, it is now suspect that the Catholic Church suddenly is sending a supposedly reliquary containing the tibia of Mary Magdalene around the United States. Hammott and others are working with the French government to examine this tomb and Hammott has already had the hair of the body tested for its DNA.
Having researched Rennes le Chateau extensively when I was writing my books "Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls" and "Mary Magdalene, Her Legacy," I was well aware of the vast number of treasure seekers and read numerous books on this as well as the Knights Templar and Mary Magdalene. I visited Rennes le Chateau and the Languedoc region in 2001 and returned home with a desire to know more. I knew there had to be more than what was known at the time. I pondered why a figure of a demon or devil called Asmodeus was at the entrance of the church and why there was a sign over the church entrance stating Terribilis est locus iste and generally translated as This place is terrible.
Even though there have been many interpretations of the paintings and decorations of this church, none of the researchers gave what I call a valid translation or found Saunià �re's treasure. Ben Hammott had a dedicated tenacity to search and find the secret. This led him to the discovery of bottles containing these clues, which he deciphered. In his book, "Lost Tomb of the Knights Templar: A Tomb; A Treasure; A Great Secret," Hammott deciphered the clues Saunià �re had left in the bottles. On page 316 of Hammott's book begins the deciphered statements of Saunià �re.
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