Holy Blood, Holy Grail
A Nonfiction, Religion, Mystery book. All members of the order were obliged to wear white habits of surcoats and cloaks, and these soon evolved into...
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the...
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- Pages: 461 pages
- ISBN: 9780440036623 / 440036623
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