I found some interesting and beautiful stained glass windows and sculptures. The chapel’s focus is different than many others. It emphasizes the Holy Family. There are pictures of Jesus as a child with Mary and Joseph. There is also the latest theory that there might have been children that were descended from the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
The problem is that according to Gospels, Matthew 1:2–16 and Luke 3:23–3 if you trace the genealogy of Jesus back to the line of David through Joseph you are stopped because the Catholic Church claims that Joseph’s blood does not run through Jesus’ veins because Mary was a Virgin - who God made fertile with child - Joseph was a foster father. This was brought up by the book Holy Blood Holy Grail. According to Sir Lawrence Gardner Jesus may have had three children spaced apart by at least three years.

Stain glass window at the Arcadian Academy
of Jesus with little children
Then were there brought to him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. Matthew 19:13. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence. This is what the official interpretation is. But lets look closer there are three children a infant with his nanny. The wealthy woman holds a toddler on her lap. A older child holds a flower up to Jesus. A tree stands behind Jesus. Could it symbolize the Holy Family tree? I’ll try another interpretation could this be Jesus with his three children. There are no disciples here in the picture. The French settlers tradition had a belief that a Holy Grail may have existed. Is this window a indication of that French tradition? Here in Arcadia is where the secret unfolds. Are there descendants of the Holy family?

Here is a station of the cross that is interesting. Like Rennes Le Chateau altar painting of Mary Magdalene there is a similarity. There is the skull both pictures have them. Both Marys are kneeling and looking up with free flowing hair. Both Marys don’t have their hair covered unlike Mother Mary and her sister. Mary Magdalene is in green here. In the picture below there is Jesus being nailed on the cross you can see the woman in blue his mother and a woman in red crying with their arms upraised. There is a woman with free flowing hair uncovered kneeling and crying out her hands covering her face. She is dressed in green. I suggest these are the same women. The artist continues with the same colors identifying the women with their heads covered and their robes.
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