June
17
/ 2022
A potentially corrupt priest, an ancestral link to Jesus Christ and hidden treasure, the story of Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château is like something one would expect to see in movie theaters, not in history books. When the small-town French priest claimed to have located an enormous amount of treasure in the 1890s, he unknowingly put into motion a story which would continue to develop long after his death. What, if anything did the priest Bérenger Saunière find hidden in his dilapidated church during renovation work? How was a French author able the use the story in the 1960s in order to claim his own ancestral link to Jesus Christ? And how does this story link to Dan Brown’s bestselling novel
