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Michael
Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln.
The
Holy Blood And The Holy Grail: Illustrated Edition.
London:
Century, 2005.
ISBN
1844138402.
Hardback.
246 x
189 mm.
512pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £20.00
A nineteenth-century French
priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of the
Pyrenees, which enabled 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 authors'
conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a
secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out
from the little Pyrenees village to encompass the whole of Western
civilization. Its repercussions stretch all the way to contemporary
politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves
nothing less than the Holy Grail.
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