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Chapter 4-The Holy family in France  
     
1.
 An extraordinary texts appeared towards the middle of the 800’s by the Archbishop of Mayence, Rabanus Maurus (766-856 CE), entitled “Life of Mary Magdalene”.
  
2.
 In this text, Mayence testifies that Joseph of Arimathea went to Britain with a large group, some of whom separated company in France, while the others landed at Glastonbury, a site in the centre of the ancient Irish tin and gold mining districts of the High Kings of Ireland in Wales and England- a district also known to be the site of ancient Jewish mining. An authentic copy of the Maurus text is housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.
  
3.
 “Leaving the shores of Asia and favoured by an east wind, they went round about, down the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Europe and Africa, leaving the city of Rome and all the land to the right. Then happily turning their course to the right, they came near to the city of Marseilles, in the Viennoise province of the Gauls, where the river Rhône is received by the sea. There, having called upon God, the great King of all the world, they parted; each company going to the province where the Holy Spirit directed them; presently preaching everywhere...”
  
4.
 The route he describes is that of the well-known Phoenician trade route to Britain, described by ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (90 BCE – 30 BCE) in his writings.
 
5.
 It appears an even earlier text than the 6th Century CE recorded this historic voyage and events written in Historia de Rebus Brittannicis by a sixth century Welsh bard, Maelgwn (aka Melkin or Melchinus), now lost, (presumably destroyed).
  
6.
 The extraordinary early dates of these accounts gives some credence to them and means they cannot easily be dismissed.
  
7.
 In fact, as recently as the 17th Century it appears the Roman Catholic Church was prepared to acknowledge the authenticity of these claims with Cardinal Caesar Baronius (1538-1609), Vatican Librarian and historian, recorded this voyage by Joseph of Arimathea, Lazarus, Mariamne (Mary Magdalene), Martha, Marcella and others in his Annales Ecclesiatici, volume 1, section 35.
  
8.
 It is in the town of Rennes-le-Château of the same region that the mysterious priest Bérenger Saunière was alleged to have found some hidden ancient official Roman travel documents authenticating those members of Joseph’s party that remained in the area. The legend surrounding the discovery at the end of the 19th Century is that the priest of Rennes-le-Château was hushed up by being granted substantial funds to his parish.
  
9.
 While Christian writers are fighting back to discredit even the claim that the church refurbishment was expensive, there can be no doubt that Saunière suddenly came into a substantial amount of money which he proceeded to use to refurbish a church adorned with heretical symbology implying Jesus died not die on the cross.
  
10.
 Today, the church of Rome would rather not speak of such things as the journey of Joseph the Ha-Rama-Theo (His Divine Highness), given the story is the basis of “The Da Vinci Code” and the many others who claim the children of Jesus lived on.
  

 
 
 

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