FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
Since the secret of the Holy Grail centers on the ‘blood’ or to be more
precise, the ‘bloodline,’ is the shroud a piece of the puzzle. Dr. Garza-
Valdes has allayed any fears of the possibility that someone could try
to extract DNA from it in an attempt to clone the man on the shroud,
because he said that any blood samples which could be retrieved from
it would be so degraded that it would be insufficient to allow the
possibility of cloning. However, is the quality of it good enough to
prove a bloodline?The story that has been outlined up to now refers to Jesus and Mary
Magdalene being married and having a child. As Christians we know
that not to be true. However, it is no secret that Jesus had brothers
(James, Joses, Simon, Judas or Juda) and sisters (Mathew 13:55), and
their bloodline could have very well survived through their
descendents.Eusebius states that “...there still survived of the Lord’s family the
grandsons of Jude (James and Jude), who was said to be His brother,
humanly speaking. These were informed against as being of David’s
line and brought ... before Domitian Caesar ... (who) asked them
whether they were descended from David, and they admitted it...”
Eusebius said that the descendents of Jesus’ family became leaders of
various Christian churches, and traced them to the time of the
Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD). A Roman Catholic account documents a
fourth century incident in 318, when the Bishop of Rome, now referred
to as Pope Sylvester I, met with eight Desposyni (descendents of
Jesus’ family) leaders. Each of them was a leader of a branch of the
Church at the Lateran Palace. They demanded that the confirmation of
the bishops of Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus and Alexandria be
revoked, and that the titles be conferred on members of their family,
and that their Church in Jerusalem be considered the Mother Church.
Sylvester refused, and there was no subsequent contact reported. The
New Testament (Galatians 2:9) bears out the fact that “James, Cephas
(Peter), and John” were the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem, and by
virtue of the order they were mentioned, and bloodline, James was
probably the head of it.As far as the Shroud of Turin– it could very well be the actual burial
cloth of Christ. But if it is a forgery, to believe that Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452-1519) fabricated it may be a stretch, since the earliest report of