The gardens of the church have several notorious particularities. Except their quality, because all those that have had luck to go to these gardens could appreciate their tranquillity, one can, after some analyses, to perceive, with objectivity, that they present curious aspects
The first point, that a few years ago was quite visible, was the presence of a grid in the main alley that prevented whoever to pass to go toward the martyrdom. The presence of this grid seems completely incongruous and completely useless. What was the goal of Bérenger Saunière ?
It is current January 1891 that Bérenger Saunière asks the authorization of the Rennes-Le-Chateau city council to enclose, to his expenses places it public before the church. June 21 of the same year, during a mission of devotion towards our lady of Lourdes, the virgin's small garden is inaugurated. She/it will be put on the pillar of the old, altar that to been installed in this place and placed upside-down. One can say with an almost-certainty that this "mistake" was not one of it. How could not a priest of the steeping of Bérenger Saunière have noticed the inversion? It is necessary to admit it, this choice of positioning is voluntary and thinks.
The creation of the rest of the gardens took meadows of six years and their inauguration took place June 6, 1897 in presence of Eminence Billiards during one Episcopal visit. A commemorative plate of the event always exists and is currently even visible.
The positioning of the pillar raises one of the major questions of the Rennes-Le-Chateau history. Indeed, during the survey of this file one is astonished of the number of inversion that one can meet.
During the first works in the church, Bérenger Saunière found the famous tile of the knights that was placed before the altar, face engraved against earth. He replaced this same tile outside to the foot of the martyrdom face engraved toward the outside, to the risk to damage the high relief, what was besides the case, of it.
It is considerable that everything that came out of the church and replaced outside has been replaced voluntarily on the other side of their original position.
It is of as much more remarkable to push this reasoning farther and to apply it to the set of the gardens of the church. It is éxactement what Alain FERRAL made, an undisputed and incontestable specialist of Rennes-Le-Chateau and that put quite in evidence a construction of these gardens disturbing !
If one studies the plan of the whole, one perceives that this same gardens have the shape of the church precisely. One recovers the central alley there, the pillar is precisely instead the confessional, the martyrdom is precisely instead the altar
Luck! Will say some? The luck would be a little too big. A pillar upside-down, a tile placed to good knowledge, and a whole looks features for features like the church.
But whereas must to conclude of it to us? Why this sensation of dualism? Why this interest for the inversions? And why do the gardens have them this shape? An equilateral triangle !
On the other hand Bérenger Saunière to held to construct an underground cave that was supposed to represent the underground cave of Lourdes. In the same way, he makes a "bench" that possesses some enrollments place of which little or prou of authors spoke. That represents these enrollments ?
Finally what was the goal of Bérenger Saunière to achieve these gardens? Of as much as their works began 6 years before the complete restoration of the church !
That represents these gardens therefore ?
Assuming that the gardens represent the back a reality and that the reality is the church in volume that we know, we can say therefore, while following this theorem, that the gardens represent another church. A church close to the one that we know. These gardens are the underground representation of the present church! Or if one prefers, the plan of that that Bérenger Saunière to overdraft at the time of his first works in the church the day where he made to displace the altar and the tile of the knights that had to probably indicate or to give access at a crypt.
But in this case that the underground cave and the "bench" of the gardens represent ?
With regard to the underground cave probably a place of the important basement, as for the "bench" probably a tomb or a sarcophagus…
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The gardens of the church have several notorious particularities. Except their quality, because all those that have had luck to go to these gardens could appreciate their tranquillity, one can, after some analyses, to perceive, with objectivity, that they present curious aspects
