The Lost Treasure Of The Knights Templar - Plot & Excerpts
A parish priest by the name of Bérenger Saunière had been posted to a very tiny mountain village at Rennes-le-Chateau. Saunière had been born in a nearby village in 1852 and had been ordained a priest in 1879. This village was his second assignment. It was not a good post for the learned young priest, who is described as having had a taste for the good life. Although larger than his first posting in the village of Clat, where there were twenty-three of the faithful in his congregation, Rennes-le-Chateau was far from Paris and at the time still accessible only by mule path.1 There was little “good life” to be had on his income, which was barely enough to support himself and a housekeeper. With a village of barely two hundred souls to look after, young Saunière had time on his hands. Whether it was from boredom or for another reason, Father Saunière decided to use his time to restore the village church, which was in disrepair. The church had been built in 1059 over the ruins of a Visigothic church dedicated to Mary Magdalene that dated back six hundred years, to A.D.
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