From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 17:35:46 EDT
Thanks to everyone.
Very interesting.
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From: "John W Burgeson" <jwburgeson@juno.com>
To: <gmurphy@raex.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: royalty
> George wrote: "> Forgive me, but did someone on this list mentioned the
> name of a school of
> > thought that holds that the royal families of Europe descended from
> supposed
> > children of Jesus and Mary Magdalene?
>
> To call such a view a "school of thought" would be unfair to both
> "schools" and
> "thought"."
>
> I beg to differ. The sect still exists in the south of France. One may
> deem them as heretics, but they exist, have their theologies and worship
> rituals, etc. At one time they were a fair size body of Christians; there
> were wars of extermination which they lost and were reduced in size to a
> remnant by "real Christians."
>
> It has been a year since I studied them -- that part of Christian History
> was a 3 or 4 minute tangential point in one lecture and maybe a page or
> two in the text. I seem to recall the name "Parsival" as being associated
> with it, but that may not be so.
>
> Burgy
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com
>
>
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