LIKE HENRI BOUDET WE ARE TRYING TO PENETRATE THE SECRET OF A LOCAL HISTORY!

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The year is 1917.

In a small obscure village in Southern France, an unknown priest collapses, struck by a probable heart attack. He is found in the tower which adorns his magnificent property, a tower he had specially built and which he called Magdala. It is Marie Dénarnaud, his maid, who found him on that fateful day. She had him carried to his bed where he agonised for a further 5 days before dying on the 22nd January.

The priest is the notoriously famous Bérenger Saunière - and his relatively short life was full of intrigue, which appeared very strange to some.

After his death the local villagers tell a story about him: that he was a country priest with much energy and colourful behaviour who also found a treasure which made him a rich man. With this money he built astonishing buildings on the private land he owned on his private domaine - land he bought using his wealth but which he registered in Marie Dénarnaud's name. In this tiny hilltop village - which is perched on top of an isolated high mountain sporting breathtaking vistas of the local landscape Saunière created a rich homely paradise of animals, exotic plants and high living.

It was the village of Rennes-le-Château.

Today the modern 'mystery' of Rennes-le-Château and Bérenger Saunière has been embellished and added to over the years since the priest's death by a plethora of individuals. As the years go on the story has an even more astonishing array of theories to explain the priest's wealth, his activities and the other local historical events and backdrops which impinge on the story of Saunière.

This website looks in to these theories and presents them here.

What do we do at Rhedesium?

Here at Rhedesium we try to look at the whole Rennes Affair from different perspectives. From the sober 'nothing to see here' angle to some of the most outrageous theories.

Rhedesium is unpretentious. It does not purport to have solved anything but only reveals the work of researchers who have something interesting to say. Researchers offer their ideas and theories and this website will endeavour to respectfully present them in a way for all those who are interested to read about them. Contemporary texts are looked at, reproduced and at times translated. Links are provided. All manner of resources are utilised - British and French libraries, internet forums, local and contemporary archaeological societies, newspapers, blogs, discussion forums, books, articles, poems, ancient history etc.

It is imperative to keep an open mind because the information about the enigma is scrambled and disparate, deliberately so. This means invariably trying to understand a usually incomprehensible problem with very limited information. We must enter the minds of the poets who have written on this subject and see how they are trying to communicate to us [this is richly described in my article HERE].

This site has been divided in to various sections - navigable along the top of the pages. The main section - ARTICLES - is sub-divided into 39 further sections and covers every conceivable angle about the Mystery of the Two Rennes.

I hope you find something of interest and enjoy the site and fall in love with the mystery that is Rennes-le-Chateau!

As well as this site there is a magazine also published - which you can view HERE and also purchase if you would like to support the Rhedesium website. Please also think about contributing to the Journal. 

I am currently working on a new analysis of LE SERPENT ROUGE.