Harry Krause wrote:


Oh...the boating connection. Mary Magdalene supposedly traveled to
France on a boat. :-)

Nice save.

That portion of the theory/legend/history/whatever is very credible.
Sailing on the Med was the preferred mode of long distance transit from
one coastal city to another hundreds and hundreds of years before 33
AD. Sailors from Greece and Carthage were all over the Med when Rome
was still a cluster of mud huts on the banks of the Tiber. Some of the
ores used for smithing in the eastern Med originated in the British
Isles, so there is an excellent argument that traders travelled beyond
"The Pillars of Hercules" (Gibraltar) and engaged in coastal navigation
perhaps 3,000 years ago, and maybe before that. Was Joseph of Arimethea
in the movie? (He was one of the major ore traders in Judea at the
time, was accustomed to travelling by ship, and in some of the Sang
Real legends he is said to have travelled with Mary of Magdela to the
south of France. According to certain Christian texts, he supported and
sympathized with the early followers of Jesus- and some claim that the
upper room used for the last supper was in his house and/or the tomb
where Jesus was buried was his family crypt). Some of the old folk
legends in Britain claim that Joseph of Arimethea travelled there, by
ship, at least once.