Wasn’t Abbé Saunière supposed to be rich when he ripped off parishioners all over France and other countries in Europe by making more money from Selling Masses than he was able to say, and was accused by his bishopric of being a fraudster? Why did he keep the records of his trafficking in masses under his bed, instead of presenting them at his Ecclesiastical Trial of 1910-1911?

Quoting from Abbé Saunière’s letter, still in existence at the minutes of his Trial: “You are aware of Rome’s first decision. Does it refer anywhere to the keeping of accounts? Not at all” (dated 8 April 1911).

So much for the idiom from the New Testament that was unknown to the earliest Christians “Blessed Are The Meek, For They Shall Inherit The Earth” (Matthew 5:5).

According to our story-tellers there was NOTHING MEEK about Abbé Saunière because he apparently discovered an “inexhaustible physical treasure”, and they wish us all to wallow in this ridiculous fantasy that did not exist during the lifetime of Marie Denarnaud.

What was “meek” about a priest that conned parishioners into sending him loads and loads of cash for him to spend – at the time – on loads and loads of bottles of wine and rum?

The believers really need to get a grip on reality – all this wallowing in fantasy has turned them all a bit soft.