[1]. "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, Richard Leigh, published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1982
[2]. [The book] suggested that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and that their bloodline survived in Western Europe. The word "sangraal" had, it seems, been misunderstood. When the word was broken after the "n" (san graal) it was thought to mean "Holy Grail," but if it was broken after the "g," the word rendered "sang raal," which in Old French meant "blood royal."
[3]. The "chalice" is an ancient symbol for the sacred feminine and the ancient goddesses are often associated with the "Vesica Piscis"—the () shape identified in the Greek New Testament gematria with "h Magdalhnh," the epithet given to the Mary whom early Christians identified with "the tower/stronghold" in the prophetic book of Micah.
[4]. Merovingian kings with the royal bloodline of Jesus and Magdalene. One of their myths apparently hints that an ancestress of the Merovingians was a mermaid, and another says that the mother of their founding leader Merovee’ was impregnated by a sea monster. In each of these myths, the prevailing kernel of truth seems to be that this ancestry is "part man, part fish." Since among early Christians Christ was widely identified as the "ICHTHYS" (the Fish) and Mary Magdalene was identified with the shape known as the "vessel of the fish," I believe that the ancestral mythologies of the Merovingians refer to the myth of their royal lineage. Bizarre as this conclusion may appear, it rests on the fact that myths are often vehicles for veiled truths too dangerous to be revealed.
[1]. This so-called “Vatileaks” scandal involves the pontiff’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele. Gabriele was arrested in May for stealing and leaking papal correspondence to the press.
[2]. The report was prepared by Spanish Cardinal Julián Herranz, Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomko and Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, a former archbishop of Palermo.
[3]. Pope Benedict oversaw the highest rate of removal of bishops for sexual misconduct ever recorded by the Catholic Church, the ABC's religion unit has revealed. The former pontiff removed at least one bishop a month, accounting for 2 per cent of the world's bishops. The list obtained by the ABC's Religion Unit includes 50 bishops who lost their jobs over breaches of celibacy or alleged sexual assaults. Forty per cent of those bishops were forced to resign after having sexual relations with women - and many fathered children. A significant number were accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse of minors. Relations with men, including other members of the clergy, make up the rest of the list.
[3]. "Benedict’s resignation was most certainly the result of numerous factors, mainly revolving around the internal problems of the Vatican, of which sexual shenanigans were likely one — but hardly the only one, or even the principal one,” Gibson wrote in his online blog.
