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You're listening to episode 77 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about Holy Blood Holy Grail.

I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin.

Hi Jimmy, howdy Dom. So in 1982, three British authors published a book called Holy Blood Holy Grail.

It discussed a secret conspiracy to control the future of Europe.

It also meets startling allegations about European history, the Bible,

and the foundations of the Christian faith. In time, it became the basis of the best-selling book

and the blockbuster movie The Da Vinci Code. What did Holy Blood Holy Grail say and how reliable is it?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World.

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they'd like to hear about Holy Blood Holy Grail. So that's what we're doing because we like our patrons

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So Jimmy, first, any preliminary remarks before we get into the mystery?

Yeah, this mystery involves France and there's a lot of French names. Like there's, for example,

there's a priest coming up named Sonyeer. So my usual disclaimer about French pronunciation

applies. Also, I read Holy Blood Holy Grail back in the 1980s, not long after it came out and at

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