Is it real? If you have any information on The Priory Of Sion Post A Reply ASAP!

Originally posted by SpecOpPres1
It is real, that's why there's a little red cross birthmark on the back of my neck. This is why the Templars had a red cross on their mantles, and so the flag of Swizterland.

Uh, no...the cross on the flag of Switzerland is white on a red field...maybe you're thinking of the flag of the Red Cross?

ConspiracyNut23 is right -- the Priory of Sion (as you are probably thinking of from Dan Brown's books and the like) is "real" in that it is an invention of two Frenchmen in the 1950's. Their claims have been refuted by credible historians and French civlil authorities. It was either the History Channel, Discovery Channel, or something similar which detailed the accounts of the two Frenchmen and their claims. One of them might have even served time for fraud, but I can't recall. I also believe one of them recanted their tale as being fiction.

Originally posted by Zhenyghi
You say its real, but the link you gave claims its not.

From the same link.

The 'Priory of Sion' described in The Da Vinci Code never existed.

In the rest of my post, I attempted to demonstrate that there was some base in reality for the existence of the Priory of Sion (I thought the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion a likely canditate)

The Order of the Holy Sepulchre, founded in 1099 was not recognized and given papal recognition/protection until circa 1113.

So the Order of the Holy Sepulchre is what the Priory legend is based on today? According to the wiki article liked above the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion was mentioned in a Papal Bull in the 12th century. (doesn’t specify the date) Of course it is very likely that you know a lot more than me on this subject.

Hope this clarifies.

Brings up more questions for me. That Duke of Brabant thing is interesting. Would you happen to have links for that?


[edit on 7/3/07 by ConspiracyNut23]

[edit on 7/3/07 by ConspiracyNut23]

I checked my EOHSJ manuals and booklets, as well as official/unofficial websites for the Order, but no mention of his title, other than "Sir".

I did a Google search on Godfrey, and Wikipedia calls him "Duke of Lower Lorraine" - I guess we were each half-right!

It does say that he was born near modern Brussels (Brabant), so that might be where I thought he was the Duke of Brabant, or maybe I confused him with Baldwin of Flanders (okay, Flanders and Brabant aren't the same...)

As for the Prior of Sion-Order of the Holy Sepulchre link, I really don't believe it exists, other than the Order was first established in "Zion" (Outremer, Palestine). The Order of the Holy Sepulchre was not a Templar offshoot, it was its own organization with a different specific purpose and founder, just as the Hospitallers were different. The Hospitallers and Order of the Holy Sepulchre were merged at one time after the loss of the Crusader kingdoms, but was short-lived.

There was a medieval "Priory of Sion" in Europe, but it went defunct long, long ago. I can't recall which religious order it belonged to, but I'm tempted to say the Cistercians. I believe this was, in part, the basis of the Prior of Sion myth created by the two Frenchmen. Again, one of the cable channels made mention of this.

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