710 A.D. La Madeleine’s Relics St.-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume

According to the folk legends of La Madeleine’s remains, her body was exhumed and hidden in the tomb of Cedonius, the man whom Jesus showed how to be healed from blindness with the clay and the waters of Shiloah, in 710 A.D. to protect her from the Saracens who were destroying all iconography.

7.10 is my birth date.

History:

from my article “The Sprout on La Madeleine’s Tongue”:

At the Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay, the monastery in Burgundy-Franche-Comté in the Yonne department of east-central France, importantly once a Roman villa, and from the earth’s eternal truth always in place, imminent, on the cusp, welling up to speak its truths again, in the 11th century stories of Mary Magdalene’s relics from when she arrived by boat to the Camargue in the south of France began to surface: “About 1050 the monks of Vézelay began to claim to hold the relics of Mary Magdalene.”

This was leading to the personal revelation Dante would write in the Divine Comedy of the arrival of his Beatrice.

Author Willa Cather, too, was paying attention to that ancient Roman cultural history throughout France, and finally coming back there for the inspired setting of her last—unspoken—-novel.

The research continues of the legends that:

“A little later a monk of Vézelay declared that he had detected in a crypt at St-Maximin in Provençe, carved on an empty sarcophagus, a representation of the Unction at Bethany, when Jesus’ head was anointed by Mary of Bethany, who was assumed in the Middle Ages to be Mary Magdalene. The monks pronounced this to be Mary Magdalene’s tomb, from which her relics had been translated to their abbey.”

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According to Magdalene Publishing author Paula Lawlor: “In 1279, St. Louis’ nephew, Charles II (Prince of Salerno and Count of Provence) acquired knowledge that the relics were buried in the town of St. Maximin in the church with the same name, so he ordered excavations in Saint Maximin to search for them. On December 10, 1279, deep in the earth, he found the marble tomb. When he tried to open it a wonderful smell of perfume filled the air. Inside lay her entire body except her jaw bone. In the dust inside the tomb was a wooden tablet wrapped in wax: ‘Here lies the body of Mary Magdalene’ and a parchment which explained that in 710 her remains had been secretly transferred during the night into the marble tomb of Cedonius and hidden so that the Saracens wouldn’t find them.”

The legends state that Cedonius had traveled with La Madeleine and a small group to France. Cedonius is the person Jesus (in John 9) heals of blindness by putting the clay of the earth on his eyes and telling him to go wash in the waters of Siloam or Shiloah (that Dante, I wrote about before, uses as the keys to the City of Dis [with his references to John 9:7] in the Inferno to come to see how they hated Beatrice and she as the salvation through his poetry).

Those are the verses, I wrote before, of John Mayer’s name, John Clayton, and mine, Shiloh Lynn, the name of the waters flowing into Jerusalem. And so Mary has been placed, literally and figuratively, into the crypt of the healed ‘blind’ from both of our names.”

Those waters of Shiloah are written of in Psalm 46: “There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her; she will not be moved. God will help her when morning dawns.”

And so the “sprout on her tongue” is speaking both our names, Shiloh Lynn and John Clayton, to heal the ‘blind’, or those who cannot ‘see,’ my birth date (it is also contained in John’s birth date 10.77), and the year he started out in music in ’97.

One of the miracles, too, comes from the translation “when morning dawns,” as I showed in the article “What Gets Uncorked with the Feminine” from the wild discoveries about the actual origins of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in previous articles that Truman Capote is not the original author, Willa Cather is:

 

Also from “The Sprout on La Madeleine’s Tongue”:

The Pluto exhumation of La Madeleine’s remains near 1050 from Saint Maximin and the recognition of Mary comes poetically also from ‘the Dominican Bernard Gui, [who] claimed in his chronicle, written early in the following century, that a sweet spicy fragrance emanated from the sarcophagus’ contents, and that a green shoot was found to be growing from the Magdalen’s tongue.”

This is said to have happened in the year 710, with 7 and 10 being the numbers Dante uses in Beatrice’s procession from the Old and New Testament in which she arrives with the rainbows and the Gryphon to speak to Dante. [ . . . ] Dante writes:

 

“When I was situated on the edge, so that the river alone separated me from them, I stopped to see better, and I saw the flames advance, leaving the air behind them tinted, and they had the appearance of trailing banners, so that the air above remained coloured in seven bands, of the hues in which the sun creates his bow, and Diana, the Moon, her halo.

 

These banners streamed to the rear, way beyond my sight, and, as far as I could judge, the outermost ones were ten paces apart.” Purgatorio, Canto 29:61-81, The Seven Banners

 

He sees this view before the appearance of Beatrice at the river.

The double rainbow over Folsom Field 1 July 2023 Dead and Company Final Tour:

Rainbow of Dancing Bears with drones over Folsom Field 3 July 2023:

Jambase wrote, “The band loaded the setlist with one beloved Grateful Dead song after another and included a few surprises along the way underneath a bright full moon and double rainbow.”

710 was also the address of the Grateful Dead at their beginning in Haight Ashbury, at 710 Ashbury. As I wrote above about Jesus telling Cedonius, from whose crypt Mary was exhumed, to go wash his eyes in the waters of Siloam in John, and that river being described in Psalm 46 as the inspired stronghold of Jerusalem, in the love song before it, Psalm 45, the poet writes, “My heart is inditing [or overflowing with] a good matter: I speak of things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.”

The further details of the Madeleine legends go that: “Mary Magdalen’s jaw bone had been sent to Rome after a previous excavation of her tomb and before the Saracen invasion of 710 AD, when all important relics in France were hidden. In Rome, Mary Magdalene’s jaw had been venerated for centuries [in St. John Lateran, the Pope’s Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior at the Lateran and ‘Mother and Healer of all Churches in Rome and in the World’]. With the news of the 1279 discovery, Pope Boniface VIII returned the jaw bone to St. Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and on April 6, 1295 it was reunited with the skull of Mary Magdalene.”