Irondale, Ala., Oct 16, 2009 (CNA).- A French priest has brought a relic of St. Mary Magdalene [the skull on the right is of the saint] on its first visit to the United States to share the story of the relic and the saint who is recorded as the first witness of the Resurrection. [Maybe....after reading Da Vinci Code? He followed the trail? And...and...found the HOLY GRAIL!!!!]Fr. Thomas Michelet, a Dominican priest, is touring with the permission of Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus-Toulon, the relic’s home, EWTN reports.
A letter of authentication from Bishop Rey reports that the relics were hidden at the time of the Saracen invasions and rediscovered in 1279, from which date they have been venerated without interruption. [Were they as scholarly as Dan Brown with how he wrote Da Vinci Code? Maybe not. Brown says his book is scholarly written.]
“They are presently kept by the Dominican priests in the cave of St. Baume, a part of my diocese. A new reliquary has been constructed to allow one of the relics, a piece of the tibia, to travel to different countries for veneration by the entire Church.”
Fr. Michelet will appear on a special EWTN Live with Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 10 p.m. Eastern Time.
“EWTN is honored that the relic will be coming to the Network and that viewers will be able to not only see one of the relics, but to listen to Fr. Michelet discuss its storied history,” commented EWTN Executive Vice President Doug Keck.
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Remember the hype that the book and movie created? I saw an interview of Dan Brown on cable TV, forgot is its Discovery or NatGeo. He was asked if the elements of the book are real. Brown says the characters and events are not but the sites and the history behind those sites ARE. Which means... that Christ married the Magdalene, bore children and that His descendants are still alive. AND... that the body of the Magdalene was hidden by the Crusaders. Then...Langdon follows the Rose Line and finds the location of the Holy Grail, buried under the pyramid in the Louvre. He then kneels above Mary Magdalene's tomb as the Templar Knights did before him. That my friends Dan Brown says are all FACTUAL as he claimed in the book.
Look at the picture below. Brown says there is a secret chamber below the pyramid at the Louvre. The chamber houses the tomb of the Magdalene. Dan where's the chamber?
Now where in the world did these relics come from?
Oh..oh.. I hear Brown saying.... "Medieval hoax!"
Bah!
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More of the relics of the Magdalene here and here and here.
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