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CHAPTER TWELVE
THE CURTAIN FALLS
PRIEURÉ DE SION
In the mid-1980’s, an incredible revelation was made in regard to the unity of Europe, the
forces behind it, and its relationship to the man who will rise to prominence in Europe’s political
community. First, let me relate the information as I have gathered it, and then afterward I will
comment on how it may fit into the prophetic scheme of things. However, before embarking on
this section, I have to warn you that you are going to be reading a mixture of factual history, as
well revisionist history that represents a radical departure from the views traditionally held by
Christians. I do not share these views, or advocate them in any way, but include them only for
you to see how it may possibly have a bearing on end-time prophecy.
In 1891, in Rennes-le-Chateau, a tiny southern French mountaintop village, parish priest
Berenger Sauniere, made a discovery while doing renovations to restore a church which had
been dedicated to Mary Magdalene in 1059. The altar stone had been removed, which rested on
two old Visigoth columns, one of which was found to be hollow. Inside were four parchments
sealed in wooden tubes. Two were genealogies, one dated from 1244, which carried the seal of
Queen Blanche de Castille, mother of King Louis IX; and the other dated from 1644 by
Francois-Pierre d´Hautpoul. Of the other two documents, the Testament of Henri d´Hautpoul,
which was dated 1695, was written in French, and is believed to be a complex code detailing a
state secret; and the other parchment, written in the 1780’s by a priest, Antoine Bigou, was
written in Latin, and contained two coded Biblical texts, one on each side of the page, which
were excerpts from the New Testament. Sauniere went to Paris to present the parchments to
Church authorities.
Also during the restoration, a flagstone dating to the 7th or 8th century was removed,
allegedly revealing a burial chamber, which contained skeletons; and because of the amount of
money he would soon begin to spend– a treasure of some sort. There has been much speculation
about what this treasure could have been.
Some talk had centered around the Holy Grail. The Grail was believed to be a chalice made
of gold, which was first used by Melchizedek as he offered bread and wine to Abraham on
Mount Moriah. It was guarded in a Phoenician temple in Tyre, the city of Hiram, the king who
designed and built Solomon’s Temple. It fell into the hands of the Queen of Sheba, who gave it
to King Solomon, and it was last used by Jesus and the disciples during the Last Supper. Other
traditions have said that it was used by Mary Magdalene or Joseph of Arimathea to catch the
blood of Jesus as it dripped off of His body while He hung on the cross. It was believed that
Joseph took the cup to Glastonbury in England; while others claim that Mary took it with her to
Marseilles in France.
The Cathars, who descended from the Bogomils in Bulgaria, and existed around the 10th and
the 11th centuries, were perceived to be a wealthy people, and were said to possess a treasure
beyond material wealth. In January, 1244, three months before the fall of their fortress in
Montsegur, two men got out with the gold, silver, and money. As their defeat seemed eminent,
the northern invaders served them with terms of surrender in March, and gave the Cathars two
weeks to make a decision. One of the terms of this ‘cease-fire,’ was that if anyone tried to
escape, they would be killed. A day before the surrender, when they would have been released,