The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
After dinner, Professor Bund, Starfish, and Victoria got comfee in the big leather chairs by the fire, and got ready for – The Show! Alas Bund was going to show BAD the secret behind the large painting of of Empress Zita and her family, that began with a picture of Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma.
“The Prince is a relative of Empress Zita, and was a Ritchie Boy.” He married Princess Margarete of Thurn und Taxis. Thomas Pynchon is very interested in this union. We talk about The Painting all the time. Tom called me last……..”
“You talk with Pynchon – all the time!/ Bullshit! I call bullshit!”
Victoria rolled her eyes.
“Here we go again! Give it a rest! And stop calling him “Bundhole!”.
“You know the work of Thomas Pynchon?” Bund asked, he leaning forward for the answer.
“Of course! My parents connected him to the movie “PI”. and the Thurn und Taxis post office. When Tom and Mary Ann were living in Mexico they met a gentleman who claimed he was kin to the Habsburgs. He claimed there was a branch descended from Carlotta and Maximillian – and they were spies!”
Bund watched his guests take that in. The phone rang.
“That must be the Governor calling back. I told her about the Appleby Trail Conspiracy, that there is a secessionist group connected to it. Excuse me. This is private.”
At 7:34 A.M. on February 10, 2023 I goolged PARMA and ZITA, and my post on August 14, 2017 popped up. I posted about Rena’s husband buzzing the ranch. I was already blown away with the synchronicity, the appearance of Sir Easton – out of nowhere! I had forgot about this post. My subconscious angel- author, did not. I had heard on the news a convicted Oath Keeper predicting another Civil War. I rued having no one to help me. The Ritchie Boys – were all I had! Or. so I thought!
“Give us wings!”
I have the Eastons summon the Knights Templar. This is the post that began ‘The Royal Janitor’ a year before I began it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Boys
“Give us wings!”
Posted on February 9, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Zelensky makes ‘wings for freedom’ plea in surprise UK visit to push case for fighter jets
This may be the most prophetic writing in modern history. In my new story ‘High Noon On The Hill’ I have Commodore Sir Ian Easton fly out of nowhere, like a ghost, and circle Rena Easton’s house on a hill in Montana. .I found a clip from the movie ‘A Bridge Too Far’ where a British Spitfire pilot spots a youth on the road – and dips his wings! The boy then spots the Nazis hiding in the trees.
The Ritchie Boys[1] were a special collection of soldiers, with sizable numbers of German-Austrian recruits, of Military Intelligence Service officers and enlisted men of World War II who were trained at Camp Ritchie in Washington County, Maryland. Many of them were German-speaking immigrants to the United States, often Jews, who fled Nazi persecution.[2][3] They were used primarily for interrogation of prisoners on the front lines and counter-intelligence in Europe because of their knowledge of the German language and culture. They were also involved in the Nuremberg trials as prosecutors and translators.[4]
The Five Towers
by
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Rena awoke from her nap realizing she had been daydreaming for way too long. Her late husband had buzzed her home in Montana with his Fairy Fulmer. Rena ran out into the field of golden grass so she could hear what Ian was shouting to her with the cockpit rolled back.
“He’s coming! Prepare yourself!”
“Who’s coming?” Rena shouted back.
“That old fellow with the Ford pickup! He’s about three miles down the road. Go put on your armor.”
“Oh my God! Greg is coming here. I best call deputy sherrif, Sam! Who’s that with you?”
“Bernard de Tramelay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar. It’s time to save the world again with chivalry, poetry, and a good fairytale. It’s the only way. The bombastic boastful one has clogged all the channels of human communication from his Tower of Babel.”
Rena ran inside and was surprised to find a suit of armor by her bed. When she put it on and looked in the mirror, she was eighteen years of age again. Rena gasped! She had forgotten how stunningly beautiful she was. She could hear Greg’s word spoken so long ago;
“It is shocking how beautiful you are. All my senses are besieged by your utter beauty. Why. Why are you this beautiful? What is the purpose?”
Now she got it. With her staggering low self-esteem, all she could see was her imperfctions. This is why she refused to write in longhand. She read, or heard, experts could tell what kind of person you truly were, inside. Due to her abuse, there was a horror show going on, a freak show, a cruel theatre.
“Britomart!” Rena utters, and, she is seeing herself in a kind and just mirror. “I was born to inspire men to a great cause!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britomartis
In the 16th century, the naming of a character identified with English military prowess as “Britomart” in Edmund Spenser‘s knightly epic The Faerie Queene (probably just because “Brit” seemed to fit well with “Britain”, with “mart” from Mars, the god of war) led to a number of appearances by “Britomart” figures in British art and literature.
WASHINGTON — A Delaware man who carried a Confederate flag through the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday.
Man who carried a Confederate flag in the Capitol on Jan. 6 is sentenced to 3 years
Empress Zita Is Kin To Rougemont Templars
Posted on August 14, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Adolph Hitler put a price on Empress Zita’s head. She had fled to America. Her family portrait ended up in a bank vault in Eugene Oregon. I have contacted the Austrian Embassy in order to get it returned. The Habsburgs are kin to Grand Master Bernard de Dramelay-Tramelay of the Knights Templar who own the name Rougemont, via Petronille de Ferrette. Most of the men marching in the funeral possession of Otto Von Habsburg, seen sitting with his parents, came down from that castle on the hill. I am certain all of them did not know they are kin to Knight Templars that owned the Shroud of Turin.
Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma
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| Prince Gaetan of Bourbon-Parma | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 June 1905 Villa Pianore, Lucca, Italy |
| Died | 9 March 1958 (aged 52) Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France |
| Spouse | Princess Margarete of Thurn und Taxis (m.1931) |
| Issue | Princess Diana |
| NamesGaetano Maria Giuseppe Pio | |
| Father | Robert I, Duke of Parma |
| Mother | Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal |
Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma (11 June 1905 – 9 March 1958) was the youngest son of Robert I, the last reigning Duke of Parma and of his second wife Maria Antonia of Portugal. A prince of the House of Bourbon-Parma, he was educated in Austria, France, and Luxembourg. Prince Gaetan fought in the Spanish Civil War where he was wounded six times. In 1940, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, took part in the Normandy landings and made the campaign of France. He died at age 52 in a car accident near Cannes. He left a daughter from his marriage to Princess Margarete of Thurn und Taxis.
Early life[edit]
Prince Gaetan of Bourbon-Parma was the youngest child of the last Duke of Parma, Robert I (1848–1907) and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862–1959), daughter of King Miguel of Portugal. Gaetan was the youngest of Duke Robert’s twenty-four children. His father had married twice having twelve children in each marriage.
Gaetan was born at the Villa Pianore near Lucca, Tuscany. He was baptized as Gaetano Maria Giuseppe Pio. His godfather was Pope Pius X. Gaetan was only two years old at the death of his father. He was sent to study at Stella Matutina, a Catholic school for boys run by Jesuits priest in Feldkirch, near the Swiss border. At the fall of the Hapsburg dynasty he moved with his brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma to Paris. He finished his education in France and Luxembourg, where his brother Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma was the husband of the reigning Grand duchess. He accompanied his brother Sixtus in his expeditions to Africa.
Marriage[edit]
On 29 April 1931 at Paris, France, Prince Gaetan married Princess Margarete von Thurn und Taxis (1909 -2006), daughter of Prince Alexander von Thurn und Taxis, Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie Louise de Ligne. They were parents of an only daughter:
- Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma (born in Paris on 22 May 1932 – 7 May 2020). ∞ 1955 Franz Joseph Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ∞ 1961 Hans Joachim Oehmichen (1920-1995). She had three sons with her second husband.
Gaetan’s marriage was unhappy. He and his wife lived apart for most of their marriage life. They divorced on 24 January 1950 in Paris.
Carlism[edit]
During the 1930s Prince Gaetan was involved in the Carlist movement. His uncle Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime died childless on 29 September 1936 and Gaetan’s brother, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma became the Regent of the traditionalist communion. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War on 12 January 1937, Gaetan joined the Requetés, the Third Battalion of Navarre, the Carlist militia, under the name of Gaetan of Lavardin, with the approval of his brother Xavier. This placed him on the Fascist side in the Spanish Civil War. Since he later served in the United States Army in World War II, he is one of those who fought both for and against Fascism in the World War II era.
On 7 April, the Third Navarre was assigned to dislodge the enemy from Mount Saibigain so as to open the way to Bilbao. The Third distinguished itself in the successful operation and was awarded a unit decoration for valor. D. Cayetano received a battlefield promotion to ensign for his role in the battle.
On 9 May, while in position in front of Bizcargui, Gaetan was wounded in the neck. He was taken to the hospital “Alfonso Carlos” in Pamplona with serious injuries. At the hospital he was forced to reveal his true identity. While there he was visited by Colonel Rada, who awarded him a battlefield promotion to lieutenant, again for conspicuous bravery before the enemy. He was also visited during his convalescence by his sister Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of Austria-Hungary through her marriage to Charles I of Austria and IV of Hungary, and his nephew Otto Habsburg-Lorraine, son of Zita.
Later life[edit]
He fled Europe in 1941 for the United States, where he was drafted into the United States Army two years later, During World War II, he participated on the side of the Allies, along with his brothers Javier and Felix, the last Grand Duke of Luxembourg by marriage to Charlotte of Luxembourg. In 1943 he tried to enlist in a battalion of Austrians who served in the U.S. Army but was rejected by its French origin. Later he taught at Camp Ritchie, in which a Jewish-German to conduct special operations in Germany formed young, took part in the landing of Normandy and fought the campaign for France.[1]
Death[edit]
On the way to visit his brother Luigi prince of Bourbon-Parma, Prince Gaetan suffered a serious car accident in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, on the French Riviera on 8 March 1958. He was taken to a hospital in Cannes where he died the next day. As he had wished, he was buried wearing the red beret of the Requetés of Navarre on 10 March 1958.
Upon graduating in 1949, Coffin entered the Union Theological Seminary, where he remained for a year, until the outbreak of the Korean War reignited his interest in fighting against communism. He joined the CIA as a case officer in 1950 (his brother-in-law Franklin Lindsay had been head of the Office of Policy Coordination, the political warfare arm of the CIA) spending three years in West Germany recruiting anti-Soviet Russian refugees and training them how to undermine Stalin’s regime.[1] Coffin grew increasingly disillusioned with the role of the CIA and the United States due to events including the CIA’s involvement in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in 1953, followed by the CIA’s orchestration of the coup that removed President Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sloane_Coffin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pleskow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chavchavadze
David Chavchavadze (May 20, 1924 – October 5, 2014) was a British-born American author and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer of Georgian–Russian origin.
Life and death[edit]
Chavchavadze was born in London to Prince Paul Chavchavadze (1899–1971) and Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia (Romanov) (1901–1974), a descendant of a prominent Georgian noble family and the Imperial Russian dynasty.[1] His father, Prince Paul, was a fiction writer and translator of writings from Georgian into English, and an émigré in the United Kingdom, and then the United States.[citation needed]
Chavchavadze entered the United States Army in 1943 and served during World War II as liaison for the U.S. Army Air Force Lend-Lease supply operations to the Soviet Union. During his time in WWII, he trained at Camp Ritchie putting him among the ranks of many Ritchie Boys. After the war, he entered Yale University where he was a member of The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, the second longest running a cappella group in the United States. He spent more than two decades of his career as a CIA officer in the Soviet Union Division.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Gaetano_of_Bourbon-Parma
Above is a large painting at the Univerity of Oregon Museum titled ‘The Last Audience of the Habsburgs’. It was smuggled out of Austria. Hitler put a bounty on the head of Empress Zita who fled to America with her Royal Family. Rena and Zita own the same beautiful and regal energy.
When I told a new-found friend and fellow scholar that my mother’s maiden name was Rosamond, and my sister painted beautiful women using her middle name, he took me to see this painting which is about five by seven feet.
“I recall the Rosamond name is associated with the Habsburgs.”
That was 1997. When I found the Rosamond-Rougemont name in my family tree, and introduced all the beautiful and rosy women in my life – especially my grandmother – these old curmudgeon who glommed onto the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene begat the Rex Deus lineages that was protected by a lineage of Knight Templars, their balls dropped to the ground. They hate me to this very day. They have published books. There is not a lover of women amongst them.
I can look at Zita’s face, forever, the same way I look at Rena’s face. I was supposed to bring many beautiful children into the world so as to save this Rose Line.
A world-renowned feminist arranged a meeting of War orphans with the Empress. In the background are Habsburg men in uniform.
This lost painting was found in a bank vault in Eugene Oregon rolled up in a very beautiful Persian Carpet. Cleopatra was smuggled in a carpet, and unrolled before the King of the Roman Empire.
In my letter to Michael Salvator Archduke Habsburg-Lorraine asking for a contest form, I informed the Archduke the University of Oregon has something that belongs to his family, and, if he so wish, I will be the laison to get it returned to the rightful owner, because, there are new international laws to return art belonging to refugees. I told this Habsburg this painting was the best example of crossing the old boarders – to the New World. So jealous was this Archeduke, that he ignored me. The only other explanation is – he is very stupid! Perhaps he thought I was a crazed lunatic? Naaaah! Hush the thought!
Of course this painting is going to be the first chapter of my book ‘Capturing Beauty’.
Zita born eight children from her womb. She was a beautiful mother and empress – and a very gallant refugee without a home.
When Rena entered the University of Nebraska Museum, she unrolled herself, and did a dance. Behold the white flowers on the Empress’s carpet.
I love this woman.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
Habsburgs – A Rex Deus Lineage?
Posted on August 11, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Lobkowicz Palace (part of the Prague Castle complex).
- A noble family in the Czech Republic saw their castles and 20,000 cultural artifacts stolen, first by the Nazis then by the Communists.
- William Rudolf Lobkowicz, a 27-year-old prince, is trying to preserve and share this 700-year-old legacy using NFTs, the blockchain and the metaverse.
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos and William Rudolf Lobkowicz in the Family Chapel of the Lobkowicz Palace depicting an early 18th-century altarpiece painting of St. Wenceslas, patron saint of the Czech nation.
Nazi officers observing plans during their occupation of Roudnice Castle in 1939. The castle was turned into an SS training camp.
Bohemian prince, 27, raises $300,000 in NFTs to preserve and share castles, artifacts (cnbc.com)
In the last two days the world has been considering if Donald Trump is invincible -and will be reelected President of the United States – AGAIN? The really mind-boggling question is – how can he be reelected – if he was not UN-ELECTED! Many real scholars are suggesting we are looking at….
THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY!
As a Biblical Scholar I CAN SEE what is coming – NEXT! I own powers of deduction – TOO! For two months I have been flirting with the Mormon Religion. I was preparing them to be – free and clear of the death of the Republican Party – that has gone insane! I told them about ‘The Last Audience of the Habsburgs’ that will be located three miles from their new temple that will be in Eugene – or Springfield – about a mile from where KORE stood. I was considering a Baptism of all the Habsburgs – IF I get baptized! I studied if it was possible to educate the LDS Church. I concluded…..
I BEST DO EVERYTHING MYSELF!
Many people believe Trump and his cult followers – are like the old Nazis – who stole the Bohemian castles of my alleged ancestors. I found an article about the Lobcowicz family who are trying to recover their property that was – LOST DURING THE WAR! People go to war to RECLAIM what they rightfully BELIEVE BELONGS TO THEM. Trump ran on this idea that can no longer be contained and channeled in a prescribed reality. IT IS BREAKING OUT!
John Presco
“Chris Lovegrove, who reviewed The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail when first published in 1982, dismissed the significance of a Jesus bloodline even it were proven to exist despite all evidence to the contrary:
If there really is a Jesus dynasty – so what? This, I fear, will be the reaction of many of those prepared to accept the authors’ thesis as possible, and the book does not really satisfy one’s curiosity in this crucial area
In the Land of Israel, Austria- Hungary’s polyglot army was part of the realpolitik strategic alliance between the Central Powers – Muslim Turkey, Roman Catholic Austria- Hungary, mixed Protestant-Catholic Germany and Orthodox Bulgaria. All three empires – the Ottoman, Habsburg and Hohenzollern – collapsed at the end of the war.
Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus (publishersweekly.com)
Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus
Tim Wallace-Murphy, Marilyn Hopkins, . . Weiser, $22.95 (268pp) ISBN 978-1-57863-323-4
In this second collaboration, Wallace-Murphy and Hopkins continue a quest begun in their first work, Rex Deus . This similarly themed sophomore effort finds them making a case for identifying the Holy Grail as the bloodline of Jesus Christ and portraying subsequent efforts to protect that lineage throughout history. They claim to have been contacted by a man known only as Michael, who claims to be a descendant of Jesus Christ and a custodian of the secret of the Grail. To support their thesis, the authors recast biblical history as a vast coverup, an ingenious story concocted by priests and plotters. They continue with a narrative of church and state conspiring to maintain the secret of the Grail, beginning with the early church, through the Middle Ages and finally to the present day. To accept the authors’ premise, one must consent to the idea of a massive coverup, a cabal involving church, various governments and science. Furthermore, one must agree that Jesus survived the crucifixion and lived on to raise his children and produce a family line. Drawing heavily from known secondary sources, this book offers little that is new, but rather a rehash of much that has already been published and has been heavily popularized through the novel The Da Vinci Code . It does, however, provide a readable—if fervent—overview of this controversial theory. (June)
Karl Schwarzenberg and The Habsburg Audience
Posted on July 23, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
For several years I have been trying to bring to the attention of the Austrian Government the existence of the large canvas at the University of Oregon Museum titled ‘The Last Audience of the Habsburgs’ that was smuggled out of Austria. Alas, I have found just the right person. He is my kindred, Karl Schwarzenberg, who himself had to flee a oppressive regime. Karl opposes Putin, and backs Britain. I will contact him and see if he would like to come give a talk on this painting. His relative, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, restored the Habsburg Empire.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lan-anh-vu/how-i-got-there-karel-sch_b_9043274.html
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (German: Felix Prinz zu Schwarzenberg; 2 October 1800 – 5 April 1852) was a Bohemian nobleman and an Austrian statesman who restored the Habsburg Empire as a European great power following the Revolutions of 1848. He served as Minister-President of the Austrian Empire and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire from 1848 to 1852.
Karel Schwarzenberg is the Prince of Schwarzenberg, Duke of Krumlov, former first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and honorary Chairman of Top 09 party. Schwarzenberg was also a Member of the Senate of the Czech Parliament and a candidate for the President of the Czech Republic in the 2013 presidential election. He is noted as a pro-European member of the center-right governing coalition.
Schwarzenberg’s family, who once ranked among the oldest and wealthiest aristocrats in Central Europe, had to leave the Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup of 1948. He spent most of his adult life in Austria to plot against communism. He is a great proponent of human rights and has been for his entire life. In 1989, he was awarded, together with Lech Wałesa, the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Award. Lan Anh Vu sat down with Schwarzenberg to learn more about his political life, the challenges he faced and his advice for young people across the world when it comes to pursuing a career in politics.
As told to Lan Anh Vu
My Career in Politics
In my early childhood, I was an observer of politics. In 1948, when the Communists took over, I was ten years old when I had to leave the Czechoslovakia and move to Austria. When I went to the school in Vienna to study law, I engaged in some political activities and became active in promoting human rights. At Munich university where I studied Graz and forestry, I was elected to student government. Due to the early death of my adoptive father, Jindrich Schwarzenberg, I had to cut my studies short and start managing the family properties.
From 1984 to 1991, I became president of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. I pushed for human rights in Europe and was negotiating the question of human rights in the former USSR, Bulgaria, Kosovo and the Czech Republic.
When the Communist regime fell in 1989 , I returned to live in the Czechoslovakia and work for the late President Vaclav Havel. In 1990, I was appointed as the Chancellor of the Office of the President.
Some people told me I should become a senator. I first ran in the senate elections in 2002 and was unsuccessful, and in 2004 I ran again, succeeded and was elected a senator. Three years later, I became the foreign minister of the Czech Republic. Politics has been a constant part of my life ever since childhood.
My whole life I fought for liberty and democracy. I always thought that if you had opportunities ahead, you have responsibilities and should do something for your country.
http://daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-girl-in-last-audience-of-hapsburgs.html
When this unfinished canvas was first exhibited in Eugene fifty years ago, it was described as a “painting with a history as romantic as old Vienna.” Given that it was smuggled into the United States in a carpet roll by a political refugee, this claim is not unfounded.
The artist began the work in October of 1918 at Schönbrunn Palace, where the young Empress Zita (1892 – 1989) received an audience of war orphans and a group of wealthy noblewomen, the Organization of War Godmothers, who had “adopted” them. Within hours, Empress Zita (shown seated on her throne), her husband, and their own eight children were forced to flee across the Swiss border because of the contentious political climate. Despite several attempts, they were never able to reestablish themselves on their thrones; both the Emperor and Empress died in exile.
Alleged Jewish Descent
Antisemitic propaganda claimed that the Hapsburgs were contaminated with Jewish blood, the protruding lower lip characteristic of many of them being considered a racial mark! The allegation was based on the assertion that Roger II of Sicily (1095–1154), whose offspring intermarried with the Hapsburgs, had married a *Pierleoni, a sister of the Jewish antipope *Anacletus II. The claim became notorious when the Austrian noble Adalbert von Sternberg declared around 1900 that he could have Jewish blood only through his kinship to the Hapsburgs. Modern research dismisses the allegation.
Bohemian prince, 27, raises $300,000 in NFTs to preserve and share castles, artifacts (cnbc.com)
Been There: A forgotten time
A recent symposium on the role of the Austro-Hungarian army in Palestine during those critical years 1914 to 1918 illustrates a fascinating chapter of the past.
By GIL STERN STERN ZOHAR
To most people, World War I Palestine is an obscure subject recalled – if at all – by Rehov Allenby in Tel Aviv, itself commemorating the British general who, together with his expeditionary force of British and colonial ANZAC (Australia-New Zealand) forces, freed the country from four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule. The recent symposium at the Austrian Hospice on the role of the Austro-Hungarian army in Palestine during those critical years 1914 to 1918 illustrates a fascinating if little remembered chapter of the past, even as it proves the adage that history is written by the victors.
The symposium, entitled “Doctors, Artillerymen, Musicians: The Austrian Expedition in Palestine in the First World War,” documents the 3,000 Imperial Habsburg troops – some of them Jewish but most Hungarian – who arrived here in 1915 and remained until the calamitous Battle of Megiddo in September 1918, leading to the signing of the Armistice of Moudros on October 30, 1918.
In the Land of Israel, Austria- Hungary’s polyglot army was part of the realpolitik strategic alliance between the Central Powers – Muslim Turkey, Roman Catholic Austria- Hungary, mixed Protestant-Catholic Germany and Orthodox Bulgaria. All three empires – the Ottoman, Habsburg and Hohenzollern – collapsed at the end of the war.
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With the defeat of Serbia in 1915, Germany established a rail link through Austria-Hungary and the Balkans to Constantinople and beyond via the Hijaz railway.
Unlike Germany, which had colonial ambitions in Palestine, Austria viewed its Middle East adventure as “an investment that would pay off in the future, in the postwar period,” explained Viennese historian Robert- Tarek Fischer, author of Austria in the Near East, the Great Power Politics of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Arab Orient 1633-1918 and Austria-Hungary’s Struggle in the Holy Land: Imperial Palestine Politics in the First World War, who was the first speaker at the symposium, which opened a photo exhibition.
Berlin and Vienna were economic competitors for the Ottoman Empire’s mineral wealth of copper, lead and oil, Fischer said. Turkey, leery of too much German influence from its 25,000- strong Asia Korps, welcomed the Austrians. In addition, the Germans were seen as overbearing, while the amiable Austrians played a more deft hand, even as they tried to supplant France as the protector of the Christians in the Holy Land.
Kaiser Franz Josef – the aging emperor trying to keep his faltering Central European empire from tearing apart under the nationalist ambitions of its disparate ethnic parts – presciently observing the departure of his troops to the Middle East, said, “I believe we will never see them again.”
Those units, initially Motor Mortar Battery No. 9 and Howitzer Battery No. 36, followed by Mountain Artillery Regiments No. 4 and No. 6, were remembered with fond nostalgia by the Arabs and Jews of Palestine.
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One reason was the Austrians’ distribution of daily bread in Bethlehem in the winter of 1916/1917 to prevent starvation caused by a locust plague.
The Austrian military presence included a brass band that played frequent concerts and provided musical accompaniment for the silent films shown as propaganda. Both greatly improved Austria’s prestige among the local population. One screening in Jerusalem on March 11, 1916, attracted 1,300 spectators, noted Fischer. “It created a great sensation, which for a time let people forget the hardships of the war.”
Finally the Austrian military’s medical unit attended to the civilian population’s health, as well as that of its soldiers, seeking to contain outbreaks of typhoid, typhus, dysentery and cholera. Military hospitals were established in Jerusalem and Nazareth. The latter was moved to Damascus in 1918 as the front drew near.
In the chaos of the war’s final months, the Austrians suffered many fatal battlefield casualties. Most were left unburied. Fischer estimates the total losses at some 600 men – one-fifth of the expeditionary force. The graves of only 12 soldiers are marked, noted Norbert Schwake, the custodian of the German War Cemetery in Nazareth. One of them is that of vormeister (corporal) Nissim Behmoiras, who was wounded on the Gaza front in July 1916 and buried on the Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery. His funeral procession from the hospital in the Ratisbonne Monastery was accompanied by a Turkish military orchestra.
Elaborating on the “very much neglected subject” of the many World War I Austrian soldiers missing in action in Palestine, Schwake explained that in 1985, following the Kurt Waldheim affair – the international controversy raised about possible Wehrmacht war crimes of the Austrian who served as the fourth secretary- general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 – Austria sealed its military records until 2018.
While it’s “probably too late to find any new information in the sand of the Holy Land, one thing should be done: Change the strange Austrian laws that hinder the historian investigating the lot of so many young men who sacrificed their lives for their beloved Austria,” he said.
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- A noble family in the Czech Republic saw their castles and 20,000 cultural artifacts stolen, first by the Nazis then by the Communists.
- William Rudolf Lobkowicz, a 27-year-old prince, is trying to preserve and share this 700-year-old legacy using NFTs, the blockchain and the metaverse.
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos and William Rudolf Lobkowicz in the Family Chapel of the Lobkowicz Palace depicting an early 18th-century altarpiece painting of St. Wenceslas, patron saint of the Czech nation.
House of Lobkowicz
PRAGUE — It is past midnight on a Friday at the Lobkowicz Palace in the Prague Castle complex. A 27-year-old Czech prince, William Rudolf Lobkowicz, is crawling on the hard stone floor, taking care not to trigger the alarms behind the guardrails that partition the castle’s daytime visitors from the 16th-century portraits hanging on the stone walls.
He’s trying to find an outlet so he can plug a 30-foot extension cord into the wall. The cord powers camera equipment to be used in a live broadcast happening around 1 a.m. which will feature the story of his family on a CNBC prime-time show in New York. Lobkowicz will be behind the camera for the shot, but that doesn’t matter to him. He simply wants to share one of the world’s greatest private collections of masterworks with the public.
A young prince in an ancient castle stashed with priceless art sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale, but his life is far from a Disney adaptation.
The palace feels more like a crypt. At the height of the Bohemian summer, the humidity clings to our skin, and it is pitch black beyond the glow of the stark fluorescent lighting that runs along the high stone ceilings. Each time Lobkowicz comes to a door, he reaches down to a bulky key ring that looks like it belongs to a monk in a monastery and fumbles for the right key to let him through — and there are dozens of doors on each floor. Each door leads us deeper into the dark stone labyrinth, deeper into the past.
William Rudolf Lobkowicz walking through the Prague Castle complex.
House of Lobkowicz
He and his family do not live in this or any of their other ancestral homes. Instead, they live in personal apartments a 10-minute drive away. To stay past 10 p.m. on a Friday night, Lobkowicz has to get special permission from the military guards who patrol the grounds.
Lobkowicz, his two sisters and their parents have dedicated their life’s work to maintaining what’s left of their ancestral heritage: Three castles, one palace, 20,000 movable artifacts, a library of approximately 65,000 rare books, 5,000 musical artifacts and compositions — including an early copy of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony — and 30,000 boxes and folios, some of which have never been opened. All of it was stolen, twice. First by the Nazis, then by the Communists.
“You know, most people see the beautiful artworks and castles and think that this all comes incredibly easy,” Lobkowicz said from the Habsburg Room, a portrait gallery on the second floor of the palace. “But in reality, behind the scenes, we’re working tirelessly day and night to preserve and protect these things. Nobody’s going to care about these things as much as we do.”
William Rudolf Lobkowicz examining old family photographs in the Lobkowicz Archives.
House of Lobkowicz
His voice is tired at this late hour, but his youthful enthusiasm still shines through.
To protect his family’s past, Lobkowicz has embraced the future. The world of cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens is intangible and abstract, a collection of mathematical formulas running on computers spread all over the world. The young prince has turned to these digital tools to safeguard and repair the artifacts that hold so much nostalgic value for the family — and, he hopes, for some of the rest of the world, as well.
″It’s not just about selling NFTs to support cultural monuments, but it’s also looking at: How do we preserve a record of our history?” Lobkowicz said. “Blockchain technology provides an immutable record of our cultural heritage, which you can preserve on chain, and that’s something that’s never been done before.”
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos tours Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle with William Rudolf Lobkowicz.
House of Lobkowicz
An immutable record
The palace is housed within the Hrad, the name given by locals to Prague Castle, which looms over the city. The sprawling complex was once the seat of Bohemian kings. Now, it’s home to Czech presidents and to The Lobkowicz Collections, a body of work dating back more than 2,000 years.
After the thefts by the two authoritarian regimes, the collections were painstakingly reassembled over 25 years through a process known as restitution. They feature world-famous paintings by Bellotto, Bruegel, Canaletto, Cranach, Rubens, and Veronese, as well as ceramics spanning five centuries, 1,200 pieces of arms and armor, and string and wind instruments, including trumpets gilded and adorned with rubies. The collection also includes early manuscripts and scores, including several Beethoven symphonies and his Opus 18 String Quartets, some marked with the composer’s original corrections.
The Lobkowiczes take none of this for granted.
Rex Deus and King of Bohemia and Jerusalem
Posted on August 10, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
Above is a large painting at the Univerity of Oregon Museum titled ‘The Last Audience of the Habsburgs’. It was smuggled out of Austria. Hitler put a bounty on the head of Empress Zita who fled to America with her Royal Family. Rena and Zita own the same beautiful and regal energy.
When I told a new-found friend and fellow scholar that my mother’s maiden name was Rosamond, and my sister painted beautiful women using her middle name, he took me to see this painting which is about five by seven feet.
“I recall the Rosamond name is associated with the Habsburgs.”
That was 1997. When I found the Rosamond-Rougemont name in my family tree, and introduced all the beautiful and rosy women in my life – especially my grandmother – these old curmudgeon who glommed onto the theory that Jesus and Mary Magdalene begat the Rex Deus lineages that was protected by a lineage of Knight Templars, their balls dropped to the ground. They hate me to this very day. They have published books. There is not a lover of women amongst them.
I can look at Zita’s face, forever, the same way I look at Rena’s face. I was supposed to bring many beautiful children into the world so as to save this Rose Line.
A world-renowned feminist arranged a meeting of War orphans with the Empress. In the background are Habsburg men in uniform.
This lost painting was found in a bank vault in Eugene Oregon rolled up in a very beautiful Persian Carpet. Cleopatra was smuggled in a carpet, and unrolled before the King of the Roman Empire.
In my letter to Michael Salvator Archduke Habsburg-Lorraine asking for a contest form, I informed the Archduke the University of Oregon has something that belongs to his family, and, if he so wish, I will be the laison to get it returned to the rightful owner, because, there are new international laws to return art belonging to refugees. I told this Habsburg this painting was the best example of crossing the old boarders – to the New World. So jealous was this Archeduke, that he ignored me. The only other explanation is – he is very stupid! Perhaps he thought I was a crazed lunatic? Naaaah! Hush the thought!
Of course this painting is going to be the first chapter of my book ‘Capturing Beauty’.
Zita born eight children from her womb. She was a beautiful mother and empress – and a very gallant refugee without a home.
When Rena entered the University of Nebraska Museum, she unrolled herself, and did a dance. Behold the white flowers on the Empress’s carpet.
I love this woman.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
A Jesus bloodline is a hypothetical sequence of lineal descendants of the historical Jesus and Mary Magdalene, or some other woman, usually portrayed as his wife or a hierodule. Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been proposed in numerous books by authors such as Louis Martin (1886), Donovan Joyce (1973), Andreas Faber-Kaiser (1977), Barbara Thiering (1992), Margaret Starbird (1993), and various websites. Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code used the premise for its plot line. The 2007 documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus proposed that evidence existed to show that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and that their son was named Judah, based upon inscriptions found on ossuaries discovered in Jerusalem in 1980.[1] Biblical scholar and author James Tabor has recently affirmed his belief in a married Jesus, [2] while Karen King announced the discovery of text in a Coptic papyrus fragment, alleged to be a translation of a lost 2nd century Gospel, in which Jesus is made to refer to “my wife”.
With the Nazi invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940, Zita and her family became war refugees. They narrowly missed being killed by a direct hit on the castle by German bombers and fled to Prince Xavier’s French Castle in Bostz.[3]:271–272. The Habsburgs then fled to the Spanish border, reaching it on 18 May. They moved on to Portugal where the U.S. Government granted the family exit visas on 9 July. After a perilous journey they arrived in New York on 27 July, having family in Long Island and Newark, New Jersey.[3]:277; at one point, Zita and several of her children lived, as long-term house-guests, in Tuxedo Park, at Suffern, New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zita_of_Bourbon-Parma
Templars in America?
Steeped in Templar tradition, Henry St. Clair, Earl of Orkney and Lord of Roslin, sailed across the North Atlantic in 1396.
http://rosaleen-thewhistler.blogspot.com/2010/10/king-of-jerusalem.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Jerusalem
According to the vast majority of professional historians and scholars from related fields, there is no historical, biblical, apocryphal, archaeological, genealogical, or genetic evidence which supports this hypothesis.[3] Hypothetical Jesus bloodlines should not be confused with the biblical genealogy of Jesus or the historical relatives of Jesus and their descendants, who are known as the Desposyni.
Contents
[hide] 1 History of the hypothesis
2 Claimants
3 Adherence
4 Criticism
5 See also
6 Notes
History of the hypothesis[edit]
The 13th-century Cistercian monk and chronicler Peter of Vaux de Cernay claimed it was part of Catharist belief that the earthly Jesus Christ had a relationship with Mary Magdalene, described as his concubine.[4]
Early Mormon leaders Jedediah M. Grant and Orson Hyde stated it was part of their religious belief that Jesus Christ was polygamous, quoting an apocryphal passage attributed to the 2nd-century Greek philosopher Celsus: “The grand reason why the gentiles and philosophers of his school persecuted Jesus Christ was because he had so many wives. There were Elizabeth and Mary and a host of others that followed him”.[5]
The French 19th century socialist politician, Louis Martin, in his 1886 book Les Evangiles sans Dieu described the historical Jesus as a turned atheist, who had married Mary Magdalene, and that both had travelled to the South of France, where they had a son.[6][7]
The Jesus bloodline hypothesis which held that the historical Jesus had married Mary Magdalene and fathered a child with her was brought to the attention of the general public again in the 20th century by Donovan Joyce in his 1973 book The Jesus Scroll.[8] In his 1977 book Jesus died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the ten lost tribes of Israel, Andreas Faber-Kaiser explored the legend that Jesus met, married and had several children with a Kashmiri woman. The author also interviewed the late Basharat Saleem who claimed to be a Kashmiri descendant of Jesus.[9] Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln developed and popularized the hypothesis that a bloodline from Jesus and Mary Magdalene eventually became the Merovingian dynasty in their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail,[10] in which they asserted:
The symbolic significance of Jesus is that he is God exposed to the spectrum of human experience – exposed to the first-hand knowledge of what being a man entails. But could God, incarnate as Jesus, truly claim to be a man, to encompass the spectrum of human experience, without coming to know two of the most basic, most elemental facets of the human condition? Could God claim to know the totality of human existence without confronting two such essential aspects of humanity as sexuality and paternity? We do not think so. In fact, we do not think the Incarnation truly symbolises what it is intended to symbolise unless Jesus were married and sired children. The Jesus of the Gospels, and of established Christianity, is ultimately incomplete – a God whose incarnation as man is only partial. The Jesus who emerged from our research enjoys, in our opinion, a much more valid claim to what Christianity would have him be.[10]
Their thesis was alluded to in the second “The Matrix Trilogy” film.[11]
In her 1992 book Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Unlocking the Secrets of His Life Story, Barbara Thiering also developed a Jesus and Mary Magdalene bloodline hypothesis, basing her historical conclusions on her application of the so-called Pesher technique to the New Testament.[12][13]
In her 1993 book The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail, Margaret Starbird developed the hypothesis that Saint Sarah was the daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and that this was the source of the legend associated with the cult at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. She also claimed that the name “Sarah” meant “Princess” in Hebrew, thus making her the forgotten child of the “sang réal”, the blood royal of the King of the Jews.[14]
In his 1996 book Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed, Laurence Gardner presented pedigree charts of Jesus and Mary Magdalene as the ancestors of all the European royal families of the Common Era.[15] His 2000 sequel Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning and the Ancient Bloodline of Jesus is unique in claiming that not only can the Jesus bloodline truly be traced back to Adam and Eve but that the first man and woman were primate-alien hybrids created by the Anunnaki of ancient astronaut theory.[16] The 2000 book Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau and the Dynasty of Jesus, Marylin Hopkins, Graham Simmans and Tim Wallace-Murphy developed the hypothesis that a Jesus and Mary Magdalene bloodline was part of a shadow dynasty descended from twenty-four high priests of the Temple in Jerusalem known as “Rex Deus” – the “Kings of God”.[17]
The 2003 conspiracy fiction novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown accepted some of the above hypotheses as being valid. Elements of some Jesus bloodline hypotheses were propounded by the 2007 documentary film The Lost Tomb of Jesus by Simcha Jacobovici focusing on the Talpiot Tomb discovery,[18] which was also published as a book entitled The Jesus Family Tomb.[19] In 2007 psychic medium Sylvia Browne released the book “The Two Marys: The Hidden History of the Mother and Wife of Jesus”, in which she tries to further validate the possibility of Jesus and Mary Magdalene producing a family.[20]
The 2008 documentary Bloodline[21] by Bruce Burgess, a filmmaker with an interest in paranormal claims, expands on the Jesus bloodline hypothesis and other elements of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.[22] Accepting as valid the testimony of an amateur archaeologist codenamed “Ben Hammott” relating to his discoveries made in the vicinity of Rennes-le-Château since 1999; Burgess claims Ben has found the treasure of Bérenger Saunière: a mummified corpse, which they believe is Mary Magdalene, in an underground tomb they claim is connected to both the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion. In the film, Burgess interviews several people with alleged connections to the Priory of Sion, including a Gino Sandri and Nicolas Haywood. A book by one of the documentary’s researchers, Rob Howells, entitled Inside the Priory of Sion: Revelations from the World’s Most Secret Society – Guardians of the Bloodline of Jesus presented the version of the Priory of Sion as given in the 2008 documentary,[23] which contained several erroneous assertions, such as the claim that Plantard believed in the Jesus bloodline hypothesis.[24] By 21 March 2012 Ben Hammott confessed and apologised on Podcast interview (using his real name Bill Wilkinson) that everything to do with the tomb and related artifacts was a hoax; revealing that the actual tomb was now destroyed, being part of a full sized set located in a warehouse in England.[25][26]
See also: Gospel of Jesus’ wife
In September 2012, at the International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome, professor Karen L. King announced the discovery of a fourth-century papyrus fragment she and a colleague referred to as the Gospel of Jesus’ wife. The small piece of papyrus includes text in Egyptian Coptic with the words, “Jesus said to them, ‘my wife…’”. The fragment has led to a revival of theories and discussion about a possible bloodline.[27]
Claimants[edit]
The following is a list of persons who have publicly claimed to be from a Jesus bloodline, or have had such a claim made about them:
Basharat Saleem, the late Kashmiri caretaker of the Martyr’s Tomb of Yuz Asaf in Srinagar.[9]
Michel Roger Lafosse, a Belgian false pretender to the throne of the former Kingdom of Scotland.[28][29]
Kathleen McGowan, an American author, lyricist and screenwriter.[30][31]
Suzanne M. Olsson, linked to the Roza Bal shrine of Sufi saint Yuz Asaf in Srinagar [32] (has recently renounced this claim[33]).
Adherence[edit]
In reaction to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, The Da Vinci Code, and other controversial books, websites and films on the same theme, a significant number of individuals in the late 20th and early 21st centuries have adhered to a Jesus bloodline hypothesis despite its lack of substantiation. While some simply entertain it as a novel intellectual proposition, others hold it as an established belief thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed.[34] Prominent among the latter are those who expect a direct descendant of Jesus will eventually emerge as a great man and become a messiah, a Great Monarch who rules a Holy European Empire, during an event which they will interpret as a mystical second coming of Christ.[35]
The eclectic spiritual views of these adherents are influenced by the writings of iconoclastic authors from a wide range of perspectives. Authors like Margaret Starbird and Jeffrey Bütz often seek to challenge modern beliefs and institutions through a re-interpretation of Christian history and mythology.[34] Some try to advance and understand the equality of men and women spiritually by portraying Mary Magdalene as being the apostle of a Christian feminism,[36] and even the personification of the mother goddess or sacred feminine,[37] usually associating her with the Black Madonna.[38] Some wish the ceremony that celebrated the beginning of the alleged marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to be viewed as a “holy wedding”; and Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and their alleged daughter, Sarah, to be viewed as a “holy family”, in order to question traditional gender roles and family values.[39] Almost all these claims are at odds with scholarly Christian apologetics, and have been dismissed as being New Age Gnostic heresies.[3][40]
No mainstream Christian denomination has adhered to a Jesus bloodline hypothesis as a dogma or an object of religious devotion since they maintain that Jesus, believed to be God the Son, was perpetually celibate, continent and chaste, and metaphysically married to the Church; he died, was resurrected, ascended to heaven, and will eventually return to earth, thereby making all Jesus bloodline hypotheses and related messianic expectations impossible.[34]
Many fundamentalist Christians believe the Antichrist, prophesied in the Book of Revelation, plans to present himself as descended from the Davidic line to bolster his false claim that he is the Jewish Messiah.[41] The intention of such propaganda would be to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of Jews and philo-Semites to achieve his Satanic objectives. An increasing number of fringe Christian eschatologists believe the Antichrist may also present himself as descended from the Jesus bloodline to capitalize on growing adherence to the hypothesis in the general public.[42]
Criticism[edit]
Jesus bloodline hypotheses parallel other legends about the flight of disciples to distant lands, such as the one depicting Joseph of Arimathea traveling to England after the death of Jesus, taking with him a piece of thorn from the Crown of Thorns, which he later planted in Glastonbury. Historians generally regard these legends as “pious fraud” produced during the Middle Ages.[43][44][45]
The Jesus bloodline hypothesis from the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is not contained in any of the “Priory of Sion documents” and was dismissed as fiction by Pierre Plantard in 1982 in a French radio interview, as well as by Philippe de Cherisey in a magazine article.[46][47] However, Plantard’s “Priory of Sion” documents prior to 1956 were found to be forgeries which were planted in French institutions to be later “rediscovered”. [48] Plantard only claimed that the Merovingians were descended from the Tribe of Benjamin,[49] which contradicts the hypothesis of a Jesus bloodline as the missing link between the Merovingian line and the Davidic line from the Tribe of Judah. The notion of a direct bloodline from Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and its supposed relationship to the Merovingians (as well as their alleged modern descendants: House of Habsburg, Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg, Clan Sinclair, House of Stuart, House of Cavendish, House of Bourbon, House of Orléans and other noble families), is strongly dismissed as pseudohistorical by a qualified majority of Christian and secular historians such as Darrell Bock[50] and Bart D. Ehrman,[3][51] along with journalists and investigators such as Jean-Luc Chaumeil, who has an extensive archive on this subject matter.
In 2005, UK TV presenter and amateur archaeologist Tony Robinson edited and narrated a detailed rebuttal of the main arguments of Dan Brown and those of Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, “The Real Da Vinci Code”, shown on Channel 4.[52] The programme featured lengthy interviews with many of the main protagonists, and cast severe doubt on the alleged landing of Mary Magdalene in France, among other related myths, by interviewing on film the inhabitants of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, the centre of the cult of Saint Sarah.
The Jesus bloodline hypothesis from the book Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau and the Dynasty of Jesus hinges on the testimony of the authors’ anonymous informant, “Michael”, who claimed to be a Rex Deus scion. Evidence supporting the hypothesis was supposedly lost, and therefore cannot be independently verified, because Michael claimed that it was contained in his late father’s bureau, which was sold by his brother unaware of its contents.[17] Some critics point out the informant’s account of his family history seems to be based on the controversial work of Barbara Thiering. [53]
Robert Lockwood, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh’s director for communications, sees the notion of the Church conspiring to cover-up the truth about a Jesus bloodline as a deliberate piece of anti-Catholic propaganda. He sees it as part of a long tradition of anti-Catholic sentiment with deep roots in the American Protestant imagination but going back to the very start of the Reformation of 1517.[54]
Although Jesus bloodline hypotheses were not submitted to the judgment of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars involved in the quest for the historical Jesus from a liberal Christian perspective, they were unable to determine whether Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a matrimonial relationship due to the dearth of historical evidence. They concluded that the historical Mary Magdalene was not a repentant prostitute but a prominent disciple of Jesus and a leader in the early Christian movement.[55] Bart D. Ehrman, who chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, commented that, although there are some historical scholars who claim that it is likely that Jesus was married, the vast majority of New Testament and early Christianity scholars find such a claim to be historically unreliable.[3]
Ultimately, the notion that a person living millennia ago has a small number of descendants living today is statistically improbable.[56] Steve Olson, author of Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins, published an article in Nature demonstrating that, as a matter of statistical probability:
If anyone living today is descended from Jesus, so are most of us on the planet.[57]
Historian Ken Mondschein ridiculed the notion that the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene could have been preserved:
Infant mortality in pre-modern times was ridiculously high, and you’d only need one childhood accident or disease in 2,000 years to wipe out the bloodline … keep the children of Christ marrying each other, on the other hand, and eventually they’d be so inbred that the sons of God would have flippers for feet.[58]
Chris Lovegrove, who reviewed The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail when first published in 1982, dismissed the significance of a Jesus bloodline even it were proven to exist despite all evidence to the contrary:
If there really is a Jesus dynasty – so what? This, I fear, will be the reaction of many of those prepared to accept the authors’ thesis as possible, and the book does not really satisfy one’s curiosity in this crucial area.[59]
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