In 1896, the priest in a small village in southern France suddenly came into possession of immense wealth. This much is true. What no one knows for sure is where his money came from. The
history of the region suggests that he may have stumbled upon cluesto a hidden treasure of the Knights Templar. An even more tantalizing possibility is that he discovered coded documents hidden
in the structure of his church, documents so threatening to the Catholic Church that he was paid to keep silent. At his death under mysterious circumstances in 1917, his secrets died with him.