Royal Blood May Be Hidden Inside Decorated Gourd

Discovery News ^ | Monday, October 25, 2010 | Jennifer Viegas

[SunkenCiv]

The gourd, originally used to store gunpowder, was extensively decorated on the outside with a flame tool. Burned into its surface is the text: "Maximilien Bourdaloue on January 21st, dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his beheading. It is described in contemporaneous accounts that there was a lot of blood in the scaffold after the beheading and that, in fact, many people went there to dip their handkerchiefs in the blood," Carles Lalueza-Fox, lead author of the study and a researcher at Spain's Institute of Evolutionary Biology, told Discovery News.

The handkerchief is now missing from the gourd, but Lalueza-Fox and his team identified a brownish substance on the interior of the dried squash. Biochemical tests determined that the substance was dried blood.

Lalueza-Fox recalled that the king was known for his blue eyes, featured prominently in paintings. He then got the idea of looking for the blue eyes mutation within the dried blood's DNA. The scientists found this mutation, at a gene called HERC2.

The researchers also analyzed other aspects of the blood's genetics, such as its mitochondrial DNA profile, its Y chromosome profile and some other markers. These all revealed that the DNA profile "found inside the gourd is extremely rare in modern Eurasians," suggesting that it may derive from a royal bloodline...

As luck would have it, a probable organ from such an individual exists. A heart located in a royal French crypt is thought to belong to the king's son, Louis XVII, who died when he was just 10 years old. The heart was cut from the young boy's tumor-ridden body and pickled after Louis XVII spent three horrific years in Paris' Temple Prison.

[blackpacific]

Ijust read what Wikipedia had to say about the false legends concerning Mary Magdalen. Unless the French lines included the house of Judah, they are not blood relatives of Jesus Christ. However, if you believe that Jesus is the New Adam, then since we are all descendants of Adam, we are all related to Jesus. But going all the way back to Adam is cheating.

Looking at the Hypostatic Union, God the Word, the Logos, doesn’t need to have offspring or to do the things that the blasphemers write about, since all of creation is his work and all of our appetites were designed by Him. The fact that He took on human nature is beyond our comprehension.

[wbarmy]

The particular Magdalene legend that was written about in “Holy Blood; Holy Grail” was that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had children prior to His crucifixion, those children and Mary Magdalene immigrated to the Jewish community in France/Spain, and were the direct ancestors of the Merovingian kings. Since most French are descendants of “somebody” related to the Merovingians, the idea was that they are snobbish because they are “related” to Jesus Christ.

It was a subtle jab at the French National Character. Not an attack on the Lordship of Jesus Christ.