The secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau.(Notes On A Strange World) From: The Skeptical Inquirer | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

What if the Holy Grail, the San Greal, was not the legendary and elusive cup that held the blood of Christ dying on the cross but was itself a blood, or a bloodline, a "sang real," a "royal blood?" The idea, suggested for the first time in Holy Blood and Holy Grail, a 1982 book by British journalists Henry Lincoln, Richard Leigh, and Michael Baigent, is at the core of Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code.

Lincoln and his colleagues suggested that the "royal blood" is that of Jesus Christ, who did not die on the cross but survived the ordeal, married Mary Magdalene, had a ...

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