Time Magazine on Magdalene Ancestry of Mergovingians and Princess Diana
History Writer
2003 issue of "Time Magazine". It comes near the end of a fascinating
four page article entitled: "Mary Magdalene, Saint or Sinner". Note
mention of Princess Diana's Mergovingian ancestry! Mergovingians are
quite popular now. Best Regards.
The following is the link to the full "Time Magazine" report on Mary
Magdalene:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030811-472868,00.html
"The notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion
became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition
of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his
chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several
French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child
founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by
Richard Wagner in his opera "Parsifal" and again in connection with
Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood.
(The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in
The Matrix Reloaded "Merovingian", filming him surrounded by
Grail-like chalices. His wife in that film was played by Italian
actress Monica Bellucci, who will also play Magdalene in Mel Gibson's
upcoming Jesus film ... Sorry, this stuff is addictive.) The idea that
Magdalene herself was the Holy Grail — the human receptacle for Jesus'
blood line — popped up in a 1986 best seller, "Holy Blood, Holy
Grail", which inspired Brown's "Da Vinci Code". When Brown said
recently, 'Mary Magdalene is a historical figure whose time has come,'
he meant a figure with a lot of mythic filagree."
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jlk7e
> The following is an intriguing paragraph from page 55 of the Aug 11,
> 2003 issue of "Time Magazine". It comes near the end of a fascinating
> four page article entitled: "Mary Magdalene, Saint or Sinner". Note
> mention of Princess Diana's Mergovingian ancestry! Mergovingians are
> quite popular now. Best Regards.
>
> The following is the link to the full "Time Magazine" report on Mary
> Magdalene:
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030811-472868,00.html
>
> "The notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion
> became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition
> of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his
> chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several
> French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child
> founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by
> Richard Wagner in his opera "Parsifal" and again in connection with
> Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood.
huh...how? And surely HRH The Prince of Wales would have to have the
same Merovingian descent, no? (I mean, Diana's supposed Merovingian
descent would almost certainly come through Charles II, no?)
Louis Epstein
: The following is an intriguing paragraph from page 55 of the Aug 11,
: 2003 issue of "Time Magazine". It comes near the end of a fascinating
: four page article entitled: "Mary Magdalene, Saint or Sinner". Note
: mention of Princess Diana's Mergovingian ancestry! Mergovingians are
: quite popular now. Best Regards.
: The following is the link to the full "Time Magazine" report on Mary
: Magdalene:
: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030811-472868,00.html
:
: "The notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion
: became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition
: of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his
: chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several
: French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child
: founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by
: Richard Wagner in his opera "Parsifal" and again in connection with
: Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood.
There's a reputed line into the Saxon dynasties and all English
royalty,though no solid support for it...so?
: (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in
: The Matrix Reloaded "Merovingian", filming him surrounded by
: Grail-like chalices. His wife in that film was played by Italian
: actress Monica Bellucci, who will also play Magdalene in Mel Gibson's
: upcoming Jesus film ... Sorry, this stuff is addictive.) The idea that
: Magdalene herself was the Holy Grail -- the human receptacle for Jesus'
: blood line -- popped up in a 1986 best seller, "Holy Blood, Holy
: Grail",
Unconvincing and tortuous...
: which inspired Brown's "Da Vinci Code". When Brown said
: recently, 'Mary Magdalene is a historical figure whose time has come,'
: he meant a figure with a lot of mythic filagree."
: (END)
Anyhow...the Merovingians were nowhere near France in the time
of Mary Magdalene.Merovech,from whom they take their name,was
in the early 5th century and lived before they invaded Gaul from
the northwest.(The Archbishop of Lyon,head of France's founding
Christian diocese,bears the title Primate of the Gauls,the Franks
were not there yet when the see was established).Merovech's
descendant Clovis was converted by the Archbishop of Reims,whose
church postdated that of Lyons.
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