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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
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