François-Bérenger Saunière was born in 1842 in Montazels, France, and became the village priest of Rennes-le-Chateau from 1885-1909. Saunière was forced to become a free priest from 1909 until his death in 1917 after being permanently suspended by the church after refusing to move to a new parish as punishment for not sharing with his superiors where his growing wealth was coming from.
He would continue to perform mass for the villagers on an altar outside the Villa Bethania, the house he built next to his presbytery and church, but never lived in. Saunière was considered a man of God, and loved by the people of his parish who ensured that on his tombstone he was given the status of being their priest from 1885-1917, including the years he had been formally suspended.
Saunière was educated, had a taste for fine wine, had a brother Alfred who belonged to the order of the Jesuits, a brother who was excommunicated from the church in 1904, and died of alcoholism shortly thereafter. He also had a maid that stayed loyal to him until her death in 1953, she is buried next to him in the cemetery beside the church.
Saunière’s part in the known mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau is quite simple, and has two main components. The first component is a set of parchments he supposedly found in 1891 in the pillar of the altar in his church he was repairing that led to all the codes and ciphers on tombstones and in his church of Rennes-le-Chateau.
The second component is the unexplained wealth he accumulated during his lifetime. The parchments that Saunière discovered have been proven to be forgeries by several researchers including Jean-Luc Chaumeil, a French researcher and author of many books, who as early as 1996 told the BBC that the parchments in the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau were a hoax, and to date his statement has been confirmed with the confession of Philippe de Chérisey, one of the three tricksters involved in the mystery, who admitted to forging the priest’s parchments in his book, “Stone and Paper”.
The other two tricksters were Pierre Plantard, and Gerard de Sede, De Sede being the author of the book “The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau”, the infamous paperback that started Henry Lincoln on the trail of the priest and the secret, and Lincoln’s lifelong endeavour sharing the story of Rennes-le-Chateau with the world.
The parchments, an admitted hoax, is now removed from the story and we are left trying to establish an alternate route to discover where the priests wealth came from. This new route to his wealth, and the people involved on this road, is the true story of Rennes-le-Chateau, the story I will share in my book Mother Crucified in early 2024. Suggested Websites: Andrew Gough - Andrew Gough's Arcadia Corjan de Raaf - Rennes-le-Château Research & Resource
YouTube Videos:
Henry Lincoln Speaks: Chronicle 1, The Lost Treasure of Jerusalem? (1971) Henry Lincoln Speaks: Chronicle 2, The Priest, the Painter and the Devil (1974) Timewatch, The History of a Mystery (1996)
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Jean-luc Chaumeil
📖 The Priory of Sion: Shedding Light on the Treasure
and Legacy of Rennes-Le-Chateau and The Priory of Sion (2012)
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Philippe de Cherisey
📖 Stone and Paper (2010)
Tobias Churton
📖 The Gnostics (1999)
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📖 Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque (2016)
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📖 The Lost Pillars of Enoch: When Science and Religion Were One (2021)
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Jules Bois
📖 L'Éternelle Poupée (1995)
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📖 Satanism and Magic (2022)
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📖 The Little Religions of Paris (2022)
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Jean-Luc Robin
📖 Rennes-le-Château: Saunière's Secret (2014)
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