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similar representation before the eyes of all? of the female principle with the fight against
Saint John represented near Christ in the Last
Supper in reality would be The Magdalene. witches, in which five million women perish.
But everything is vain: The Priory of Zion
And the Holy Grail would not be, as tradition survives, as do the descendants of Jesus in
has always believed, a cup in which was families who bear the surnames Plantard and
collected the blood of Christ, but a person, Saint Clair.
Mary Magdalene, the true "Cup" which held But let us return for a
the Sang Réal, in ancient French the "Royal moment to our St.
Blood", from which "Holy grail”, that is, the John. His "virginal"
children Jesus Christ had given her. The lost appearance also has a
tomb of the Magdalene is thus the true holy very precise origin.
grail. According to this theory, made by Dan One of the
Brown in the two novels "The Da Vinci fundamental texts to
Code" and "Angels and Demons", Jesus understand the
Christ had entrusted a church that would have subjects of sacred art
to proclaim the priority of the female from the XIII to the
principle not to St. Peter but to his wife, Mary sixteenth century is
Magdalene, and that no He had never the Golden legend of
pretended to be God. It would have been the Jacopo da Varazze. It
Emperor Constantine who reinvented a new is a voluminous repertoire written around
1280 which includes lives of saints and scenes
Christianity by suppressing the female from the Gospels, both "canonical" and
element, proclaiming that Jesus Christ was "Apocrypha". The latter were not considered
God, and making his ideas ratified by the all heretics or prohibited as many believe.
Council of Nicaea in 325. The project Many apocryphal texts were fairly widespread
assumes that the truth about Jesus Christ and and also circulated versions in vernacular
his marriage is suppressed, and that his language. The same Jacopo da Varazze,
descendants are physically suppressed. The Bishop of Genoa, used several of them as
first goal is achieved by choosing four sources of his writings, openly declaring him.
"harmless" Gospels among the dozens that In the chapter dedicated to John, in the
existed and proclaiming "heretics" the other Golden
"Gnostic" Gospels, some of which would legend we
have put on the traces of marriage between read that
Jesus and Mary Magdalene. At the second, by "God
disgrace of Constantine and the Catholic wanted him
Church, the physical descendants of Jesus are to be a
removed and centuries later they even manage virgin, and
to seize the throne of France under the name therefore his
of Merovingians. name means
that in him
The church manages to assassinate a sizable was the
number of Merovingians from the grace: in
Carolingians, who replace them, but a fact, there was the grace of chastity of his
mysterious organization, the Priory of Zion, is virginal state, and that is why the Lord called
born to protect the offspring of Jesus and his him during the wedding, while he wished to
marry. " Thus, the aspect of John seen as a
secret. At the priory are connected the "young virgin" as opposed to other apostles
Templars, and later even Freemasonry. Some depicted as mature men, often bearded, is
of the greatest literati and artists in history explained without recourse to a hidden
have been Grand Masters of the Priory of phantom Magdalene. But Jacopo da Varazze
himself, almost to disprove what he said
Zion, and some, including Leonardo da Vinci, before, then adds: "Some argue that Mary
have left clues to the secret in their works. In Magdalene was the bride of John the
the meantime, the Catholic Church would Evangelist, who was about to take her as a
have completed the liquidation of the primacy wife when Jesus called him looked away from