Templars worshipped head of Lazarus

It is my conclusion that the head that the Knight Templars 
worshipped was that of Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead, and 
came with Mary Magdalene to Marseilles . I have a theory that the 
Shroud of Turin may have been taken from the image of Jesus that 
stands over the door of  cathedral of  Saint Lazarus at Autun where 
the body of Lazarus was taken. Measurement will have to be taken to 
see if this image fits the shroud. That DeMolay was said to have not 
been un-corrupted by death, suggests a powerful tie with Lazarus to 
the Knight Templars of which he was the last Grand Master.
Jon Presco
Lord of Rosemondt
Copyright 2005
http://tinyurl.com/a4a8s
Alas I have taken you to the door to The Master, as promised. And, 
if you want to follow, you had better become like beggars. Does 
anyone want to help me make a webpage of this archway?
"The cathedrale of St. Lazarus at Autun, a strategic city even in 
Roman times, was built between 1120 and 1146. Conceived as a shrine 
for the relics of Lazarus, close friend of Jesus and brother of 
Martha and Mary of the Gospels, the new building was intended to 
make Autun a great pilgrimage site, rivaling that of Vezelay. Each 
of these cities boasted famous biblical relics - Autun those of 
Lazarus, Vezelay those of Mary Magdalen. Autun did achieve fame, but 
never managed to eclipse its rival, which maintained its primary 
position as a starting point for the Burgundian-Limousine road to 
Compostella. 

St. Lazarus of Bethany
Reputed first Bishop of Marseilles, died in the second half of the 
first century. According to a tradition, or rather a series of 
traditions combined at different epochs, the members of the family 
at Bethany, the friends of Christ, together with some holy women and 
others of His disciples, were put out to sea by the Jews hostile to 
Christianity in a vessel without sails, oars, or helm, and after a 
miraculous voyage landed in Provence at a place called today the 
Saintes-Maries. It is related that they separated there to go and 
preach the Gospel in different parts of the southeast of Gaul. 
Lazarus of whom alone we have to treat here, went to Marseilles, 
and, having converted a number of its inhabitants to Christianity, 
became their first pastor. During the first persecution under Nero 
he hid himself in a crypt, over which the celebrated Abbey of St.-
Victor was constructed in the fifth century. In this same crypt he 
was interred, when he shed his blood for the faith. During the new 
persecution of Domitian he was cast into prison and beheaded in a 
spot which is believed to be identical with a cave beneath the 
prison Saint-Lazare. His body was later translated to Autun, and 
buried in the cathedral of that town. But the inhabitants of 
Marseilles claim to be in possession of his head which they still 
venerate
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09097a.htm

1187. As the author saw it, nobody should be turned away from the 
Hospital's doors, for to do so would be the equivalent of acting 
like Dives in the famous story in Luke, chapter 24, where Lazarus, 
the beggar covered in sores, is refused the left-overs from the rich 
man's feast. 'If they have little and we excess, it is not a good 
thing; in fact it is a bad thing. For all is theirs; let us give to 
them all except what we use ourselves.'20 In the parable, it is 
Dives who is dragged to Hell, while Lazarus is carried to Heaven by 
Abraham. This story was vividly depicted in romanesque sculpture 
along the pilgrimage routes, mostly notably on the north door of the 
cathedral at Autun in Burgundy, the south door of the abbey-church 
of Moissac on the River Tam, and the south transept door of the 
church of Saint Sernin at Toulouse.
In their two books, "The Hiram Key" and "The Second Messiah," 
authors Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas paint a contrasting 
picture to the Mandylion theory. The authors theorize that the image 
on the Shroud of Turin is in fact that of the last Grand Master of 
the order, Jacques de Molay, who was tortured some months before his 
execution in 1307. The image on the shroud certainly does fit the 
description of De Molay as depicted in medieval wood cuts, a long 
nose, hair shoulder length and parted in the center, a full beard 
that forked at its base, not to mention the six-foot frame. De Molay 
was said to be quite 
tall.http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/romanesque/autun002.
jpg
http://www.templarhistory.com/shroud.html
http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/shroud.htm
http://titan.iwu.edu/~callahan/autun-stlazare-e.html
http://titan.iwu.edu/~callahan/autun-tympanvg-e.html
http://www.tandemnetwork.com/volume_1/pages/autun/p_auton-1.shtml





 
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