Reading THE JESUS PAPERS by Michael Baigent, "Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History" which is, if you don't know the secret, supposedly held by the Nights Templer and the Masons, that Jesus did not die on the cross, but lived after being taken down from the cross and fleeing to France, had married Mary Magdalene, had children, and through them and then the Merovigian Kings, his DNA is evident in contemporary personages such as, say, the future King of England, Wills.
No, it doesn't say all that in this one book exactly, but Baigent and some authors like him working on the same premises, have had their research used by Dan Brown, the author of the fictive DaVinci Code. I've been in one literary -spiritual argument after another recently with my friend I call Rev John who believes the Catholic Church is a Satanic Power, that the worship of The Blessed Virgin Mary is heretical, and that the only penance Catholics get in the confessional is Hail Marys... Yes, and we are still friends. Rev John thinks the DaVinci Code is fact, not fiction. I owe it to my heritage religion to straighten him out, don't ya think?
Tell you this... I love all the archaeological and historical sites Baigent visited and photographed and presents in this book.
